Tom Kraushaar

born in Düsseldorf in 1975, has been Publishing Director of Klett-Cotta Verlag since 2007. After training as a publishing bookseller at Suhrkamp Verlag, Tom Kraushaar studied Modern German Literature, Italian Studies, and Business Administration at Humboldt University in Berlin. In 2005, together with Michael Zöllner, he founded Tropen Verlag in Berlin, which is now part of Klett-Cotta. In 2006, he was awarded the Karl Heinz Zillmer Prize for special publishing merits.