David Wagner

David Wagner © Linda Rosa Saal

David Wagner has lived in Berlin since 1991. His best-selling novel Leben about a lifesaving organ transplant won the 2013 Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Best Foreign Novel of the Year Award 2014in the People’s Republic of China. He has written extensively about Berlin in collections such as Mauer Park (2001) Welche Farbe hat Berlin (2011) and Verlaufen in Berlin (2021). In 2024 he published Verkin, a novel about the life and the adventures of a Turkish Armenian woman from Istanbul.

recent Works

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Berlin Babel

Stories of the city by Berliners old and new

Publishing 3 September 2026 What brings people to today’s Berlin, what makes them stay? For some, the city is a place of refuge, from war and persecution, bigotry or boredom. For others, it’s the history or the nightlife or the broad green spaces that attract them – or haunt them. And a few are just …

Berlin Babel
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B-format paperback with French flaps
176 pages

3 September 2026