Clemens Meyer is a German writer. His studies at the German Literature Institute, Leipzig, were interrupted by a spell in a youth detention centre, and he has worked as a security guard, forklift driver and construction worker.

He won a number of prizes for his first novel Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming), published in 2006, in which a group of friends grow up and go off the rails in East Germany after the fall of the Berlin Wall. He received the Rheingau Literatur Preis

Rheingau Literatur Preis

Rheingau Literatur Preis is a literary prize of Hesse. It is awarded annually since 1994 by the Rheingau Literatur Festival which follows the Rheingau Musik Festival...

 in 2006. Die Nacht, die Lichter (All the Lights) was his second book, published in 2011 with And Other Stories (London). It won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize

Leipzig Book Fair Prize

The Leipzig Book Fair Prize is awarded annually during the Leipzig Book Fair to outstanding newly released literary works in the categories "Fiction", "Non-fiction" and "Translation"...

in 2008. Since then he has published his third book, Gewalten (Acts of Violence), a diary of 2009 in eleven stories.