Benjamin Lebert
Benjamin Lebert is a German writer. He was born in Freiburg. His first novel Crazy, was published when Lebert was only 16 years old. The international bestseller about a handicapped teenage rebel has been licensed to 33 nations and was made into a feature film by Hans-Christian Schmid, and has drawn comparisons to Jerome Salinger's Catcher in the Rye. In 2003, Lebert published a second novel, Der Vogel ist ein Rabe.
Lebert lives in Hamburg and writes journalistic articles for the young-adult supplement of the Süddeutsche Zeitung..
