Peter Stephan Jungk

Peter Stephen Jungk was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the United States and Europe. He has published seven internationally acclaimed books in German, including Stechpalmenwald (1978), a collection of short stories set in Hollywood. Tigor (Handsel Books, Fall 2004) is the story of a mathematician who returns to the city of his birth for a conference where his life's work is disproved, literally, causing him a nervous collapse that sets him off on a divine misadventure. The novel was a...See more

Peter Stephen Jungk was born in Los Angeles and grew up in the United States and Europe. He has published seven internationally acclaimed books in German, including Stechpalmenwald (1978), a collection of short stories set in Hollywood. Tigor (Handsel Books, Fall 2004) is the story of a mathematician who returns to the city of his birth for a conference where his life's work is disproved, literally, causing him a nervous collapse that sets him off on a divine misadventure. The novel was a finalist for the British Foreign Book Award in 2003. See less