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Alexander Kluge (b. 1932) is one of the major German fiction writers of the late twentieth century and an important social critic. As a filmmaker, he is credited with the launch of the New German Cinema movement. His awards include the Italian Literature Prize Isola d'Elba (1967), and almost every major German-language literary prize, including the Heinrich von Kleist Prize (1985), the Heinrich Bll Prize (1993) and the Schiller Memorial Prize (2001). He has also received the Georg Bchner Prize (2003), Germany's highest literary award.
