In 2010 he was awarded the Dietrich Oppenberg Media Award 'for outstanding journalistic contributions to promote the culture of reading.'. In Germany, Reng was distinguished seven times in nine years, between 20, with the award for the best sports story of the year by the Association of German Sports Writers.

Reng was the first non-English speaking author in 23 years to win the award. Reng's biography of the late German national goalkeeper Robert Enke, A Life too Short: The Tragedy of Robert Enke was voted William Hill Sports Book of the Year in 2011. It was the first foreign book to achieve such praise. The Keeper of Dreams, the story of the German non-league goalkeeper Lars Leese who ended up playing for Barnsley Football Club in the Premier League, won the Sports Book of the Year Award in 2004. Of his books, two have been translated to English and both of them have been honored with book awards in the UK. In Germany, Reng was distinguished seven times in nine years, between 20, w Ronald Reng is a German sports journalist and author. I felt emotionally drained after listening and I have never felt like that before from a book.Ronald Reng is a German sports journalist and author.

Just one word of warning, if you suffer from or if you are thinking of giving this to a someone who is travelling the road of depression, please don't. If you have any knowledge of Robert Enke you will be aware of the shock his death caused at the time, this book brought those feeling back, I felt the loss of his family and friends. On November 10, 2009, the German national goalkeeper, Robert Enke, stepped in front of a passing train. I wanted to listen to it continuiously, but I had to switch it and re compose myself, I was moved to tears on several occasions, having been involved in football and having lived through depression with a close friend, the way the subjects are approached is refreshingly honest and forthright. Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, the biography of Robert Enke, the international footballer with the world at his feet who took his own lifeHere, award-winning writer Ronald Reng pieces together the puzzle of his lost friends life. Was this a book you wanted to listen to all in one sitting? The book itself is beautifully touching, in terms of writing and the narrator does a brilliant job. Here was a person who seemed to the outside world as having all the trappings of professional footballer but yet he spent times unable to function and, more surprising he hid it so well. What made the experience of listening to A Life Too Short the most enjoyable? OMG - the worst and best book I have ever heard?

A Life Too Short by Ronald Reng