Kai Meyer

Kai Meyer is a German novelist, journalist and screenwriter, born in Lübeck in 1969. He studied film, theatre and philosophy, trained at a daily newspaper and worked as a journalist and film critic before becoming a full-time author in 1995.

He has written more than fifty novels for adults and young readers, along with comics, screenplays and radio plays, and is best known for the Merle trilogy (The Flowing Queen, The Stone Light, The Glass Word). Among his honours are the Corine prize for Frostfeuer (2005) and the Seraph Award (2013 and 2015).

He writes under his own name and the pseudonyms Alexander Nix and Isa Grimm, and lives in Erftstadt.