Sand also made it to the shortlist of the German Book Prize. Herrndorf's friend Robert Koall accepted the prize in Herrndorf's stead. Sand won the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2012, ‘’Tschick’’ was nominated for the same prize the year before. Herrndorf quipped, the novel could belong to the genre of the "Trottelroman" ( idiot novel). The novel contains elements of crime fiction, society novels and historical novels. He published his next novel Sand in November 2011. The book was featured on the German list of bestselling books for over a year. His critically and commercially biggest success was the novel Tschick (published as Why We Took the Car in English), a bildungsroman about two fourteen-year-old boys. Unreliable narrators are a recurring element in Herrndorf's fiction, which is attributed to the influence of Vladimir Nabokov. A collection of interconnected short stories by Herrndorf was published by Eichborn Verlag under the title of Diesseits des Van-Allen-Gürtels in 2007 A fictional interview between Herrndorf and an untrustworthy Cosmonaut, which contained many elements from science-fiction, was released the same year, by SuKuLTuR-Verlag. Critics described the novel as popular literature, a reworked version of In Plüschgewittern was republished by Rowohlt in 2008. Despite the protagonist's age of approximately 30 years, Herrndorf describes the novel as youth novel. In 2002, his debut novel In Plüschgewittern was published by Zweitausendeins. Wolfgang Herrndorf (12 June 1965 in Hamburg – 26 August 2013 in Berlin) was a German author, painter, and illustrator. Unreliable narrator, poetry, self-criticism
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