Paul Hawkins

Paul Hawkins is—according to the numbers—a full-grown “adult.” While he participates begrudgingly in the economy as a humourist—the minimum viable job—he prefers to spend his time faffing and/or traveling the world in search of an elusive and undeserved retirement. To this end, his life-long pilgrimage to avoid a “proper” job has deposited him in the Holy Mecca of Delayed Responsibility: Berlin. He continues to write and draw things (mostly reluctantly, as deadlines loom), just as the boringly villainous institutions of adulthood continue to hound him… except now in the far more terrifying German language.

His books include the Der Spiegel bestseller Denglisch for Better Knowers (Ullstein, 2013), Humans Are People Too (C.H. Beck, 2014), Avoiding Adulthood (C.H. Beck, 2016), The Bloody British (Goldmann Random House, 2017) and How to Take Over Earth (Ullstein, 2017). The latter title is forthcoming in the original English.