The writer Wilhelm Genazino was born in 1943 in Mannheim, worked for various newspapers and magazines, traveled a lot, and currently lives in Heidelberg. Wilhelm Genazino is the winner of several awards, including the Grand Literary Prize of the Bavarian Academy of Fine Arts (1998), and in 2004 the writer was awarded the. Georg Büchner is the most prestigious literary prize in Germany.

The story “Woman, Apartment, Novel” is autobiographical in nature and immerses the reader in the atmosphere of the sixties. This is the story of a young man who works in a small freight forwarding company during the day and writes reports for a local newspaper at night. His true passion is literature. A young man has three dreams: write a novel, buy an apartment and meet the woman he loves. Genacino's story is about growing up, developing a personality and where dreams lead.