Christoph Ransmayr

Christoph Ransmayr was born the son of a teacher in Wels, Upper Austria. He studied Philosophy and Ethnology and then worked as an author and culture editor for several newspapers.

In addition to the novels The Terrors of Ice and Darkness (1984), The Last World (1988), Morbus Kitahara (1995) and Der fliegende Berg (2006) he has written smaller prose works playing with narrative forms, for example Der Weg nach Surabaya (1997), Die Unsichtbare (2001) and Geständnisse eines Touristen (2004). His works have received numerous awards and have been translated into 30 languages.

Ransmayr has travelled extensively in Asia, North and South America as well as in the Republic of Ireland. He lives in Ireland and Vienna.