Ernst-Wilhelm Händler (German writer and entrepreneur) Add a review

Ernst-Wilhelm Händler (born 26 March 1953) is a German novelist and entrepreneur. He ran his family's business in Cham, Bavaria, from the 1980s until 2004, and wrote his early fiction during that time.

Händler made his writing debut in 1995 with the story collection Stadt mit Häusern which was later published in English as City with Houses. He has since published ten novels and two books of cultural theory. Wenn wir sterben (2002) won the Preis der SWR-Bestenliste, and Welt aus Glas (2009) and München (2016) were longlisted for the German Book Prize. He has also received the Erik-Reger-Preis (1999) and the Hans-Erich-Nossack-Preis (2006), and in 2014 he became a member of the Academy of Sciences and Literature.