Frank Schätzing

Born 1957, Schätzing studied Communication Studies in the 1980s and was Creative Director at international agency networks and is co-founder of Cologne based advertising agency Intevi.

2004 his most successful novel yet, "The Swarm", was published and sold more than 3,8 million copies. The movie rights have been bought by Uma Thurman and Ica and Michael Souvignier. Schätzing received the International Book Award CORINE in 2004 and one year later the German Science-Fiction-Award. His most recent book "LIMIT" was published in fall of 2009 and immediately became a bestseller and was on top of the German bestseller lists since.

Frank Schätzing lives in Cologne with his wife.