Friedrich Christian Delius is an acclaimed German writer. He was born in Rome and grew up in Wehrda and Korbach in the state of Hesse. He studied German literature at the Free University and the Technical University in Berlin. He graduated in 1970 and went to work in publishing. Between 1970 and 1978, he worked at the publishing firms Klaus Wagenbach and Rotbuch. He has published more than a dozen novels and a number of poetry collections. His work has been translated into seventeen languages. He has won numerous German literary prizes including the Joseph Breitbach Prize, the Georg B�chner Prize, and the Critics Prize. He is a member of the Freien Akademie Hamburg, the Deutsche Akademie f�r Sprache und Dichtung and the Akademie der K�nste Berlin. Since the late 1970s, he has divided his time between Berlin and Rome. 

February 13th, 1943 in Rome (Age 81)