Christoph Ransmayr

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Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer.

1 Life
2 Awards
3 Works
4 English Editions
5 External links

[edit] Life

Born in Wels , Upper Austria Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as cultural editor for the newspaper "Extrablatt" from 1978 to 1982, also publishing articles and essays in "GEO", "TransAtlantik" and "Merian". After his novell Die letzte Welt was published in 1988 he did extensive traveling in Ireland, Asia, North and South America. In 1994 he moved to West Cork, Ireland, partly because of the artists exemption in the irish income taxation. In 1997 Ransmayr did read his short story Die dritte Luft oder Eine Bühne am Meer, written for this occasion, as keynote speech for the Salzburg Festival.

[edit] Awards

1986-1988 Elias Canetti Fellowship
1988 Anton Wildgans Prize
1992 Großer Literaturpreis der Bayerischen Akademie der Schönen Künste
1995 Franz-Kafka-Preis
1995 Franz-Nabl-Preis
1996 Aristeion Prize for the novel Morbus Kitahara
1997 Solothurner Literaturpreis
1997 Kulturpreis des Landes Oberösterreich
1998 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis
2001 Nestroy-Theaterpreis
2004 Bertolt-Brecht-Literaturpreis
2004 Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis für Literatur

[edit] Works

Strahlender Untergang, 1982, ISBN 3-85447-006-1
Die Schrecken des Eises und der Finsternis, 1984, ISBN 3-85447-043-6
Die letzte Welt, 1988, ISBN 3-89190-244-1
Morbus Kitahara, 1995, ISBN 3-10-062908-6
Der Weg nach Surabaya, 1997, ISBN 3-10-062916-7
Die dritte Luft, oder Eine Bühne am Meer, 1997, ISBN 3-10-062920-5
Die Unsichtbare. Tirade an drei Stränden, 2001, ISBN 3-10-062924-8
Der Ungeborene, oder Die Himmelsareale des Anselm Kiefer, 2002, ISBN 3-10-062925-6
Die Verbeugung des Riesen. Vom Erzählen, 2003, ISBN 3-10-062926-4
Geständnisse eines Touristen. Ein Verhör, 2004, ISBN 3-10-062927-2
Der fliegende Berg, 2006, ISBN 978-3-10-062936-4

[edit] English Editions

The terrors of ice and darkness, 1991, translated by John E. Woods, ISBN 0-8021-3459-9
The last world, 1991, translated by John E. Woods, ISBN 0-80213458-0
The dog king, 1997, translated by John E. Woods, ISBN 0-679-76860-2