Clemens Meyer (born 1977 in Halle an der Saale, then East Germany) 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.[1]
He won a number of prizes for his first novel Als wir träumten (As We Were Dreaming), published in 2006,[1] 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 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 in 2008. Since then he has published his third book, Gewalten (Acts of Violence), a diary of 2009 in eleven stories.