CHRISTOPH PETERS was born in 1966 in Kalkar, Germany. He studied painting from 1988 to 1994 at the National Academy of Arts in Karlsruhe. His debut novelStadt Land Fluss(1999) was award the Aspekte Prize for Literature. In 2001 he published a highly acclaimed collection of short stories calledKommen und gehen, manchmal bleiben. Christoph Peters lives in Berlin.