Name Christoph Ransmayr | Role Writer | |
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Books The last world, Morbus Kitahara: Roman, The Dog King, The terrors of ice and darkness, Der fliegende Berg | ||
Das literarische quartett 03 30 09 1988 g nter grass martin walser christoph ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer.
Contents
- Das literarische quartett 03 30 09 1988 g nter grass martin walser christoph ransmayr
- Christoph ransmayr liest aus atlas eines ngstlichen mannes
- Life
- Awards
- References
Christoph ransmayr liest aus atlas eines ngstlichen mannes
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 novel 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, as a friend offered to lease him a splendid house on the Atlantic coast for a very affordable rent. In 1997 Ransmayr read his short story Die dritte Luft oder Eine Bühne am Meer, written for this occasion, as a keynote speech for the Salzburg Festival. After his marriage in the Spring of 2006 Ransmayr returned to live in Vienna.
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