Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer. March 20 is the 79th day of the year in the Gregorian Calendar (80th in Leap years). ... 1954 (MCMLIV) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ...

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, as a friend offered him to lease a splendid house at the Atlantic coast for a very affordable rent, and also 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. After his marriage in the Spring of 2006 Ransmayr returned to live in Vienna. Wels (population of 56,478 as of 2001) is the second largest city of the state of Upper Austria, located in the north of Austria, upon the Traun River near Linz. ... Upper Austria (Ober sterreich) is one of the nine federal states or Bundesl nder of Austria. ... Gmundens lakefront on a cloudy summers day Gmunden is a town in Upper Austria with 15,075 inhabitants. ... Traunsee as seen from Gmunden. ... 1972 (MCMLXXII) was a leap year starting on Saturday. ... 1978 (MCMLXXVIII) was a common year starting on Sunday. ... The Death of Socrates, by Jacques-Louis David (1787) depicts the philosopher Socrates carrying out his own execution. ... Ethnology (greek ethnos: (non-greek, barbarian) people) is a genre of anthropological study, involving the systematic comparison of the folklore, beliefs and practices of different societies. ... Inhabitants according to official census figures: 1800 to 2005 Vienna in 1858 Vienna (German: Wien ) is the capital of Austria, and also one of the nine States of Austria. ... 1982 (MCMLXXXII) was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Merian is a German travel magazine. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... 1994 (MCMXCIV) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated as the International Year of the Family and the International Year of the Sport and the Olympic Ideal by United Nations. ... West Cork (Irish: Iarthar Chorcaí) in south-west Ireland, lies in Irelands largest county, County Cork. ... 1997 (MCMXCVII) was a common year starting on Wednesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... The Salzburg Festival is a prominent music festival in the Austrian town of Salzburg, the birthplace of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. ...

Awards

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

See also: 1985 in literature, other events of 1986, 1987 in literature, list of years in literature. ... 1988 (MCMLXXXVIII) was a leap year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Elias Canetti, Nobel Laureate in Literature Elias Canetti (25 July 1905, Ruse, Bulgaria – 13 August 1994, Zurich) was a Bulgaria-born British-Austrian novelist, who wrote in German and won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1981. ... See also: 1991 in literature, other events of 1992, 1993 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1994 in literature, other events of 1995, 1996 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Kafka at the age of five Franz Kafka (IPA: ) (July 3, 1883 – June 3, 1924) was one of the major German-language novelists and short story writers of the 20th century, whose unique body of writing — much of it incomplete, and published posthumously despite his wish that it be destroyed... See also: 1995 in literature, other events of 1996, 1997 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Aristeion Prize is a European prize, awarded for significant contributions to contemporary literature, and exceptional translations of contemporary literature. ... See also: 1996 in literature, other events of 1997, 1998 in literature, list of years in literature. ... The Solothurner Literaturpreis is a literary award for an excellent performance by a German language writer. ... See also: 1997 in literature, other events of 1998, 1999 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Friedrich Hölderlin Johann Christian Friedrich Hölderlin (March 20, 1770 – June 6, 1843) was a major German lyric poet. ... See also: 2000 in literature, other events of 2001, 2002 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Johann Nepomuk Eduard Ambrosius Nestroy (born December 7, 1801 at Vienna, Austria; died May 25, 1862 at Graz, Austria) was an opera singer, actor and, primarily, a playwright. ... See also: 2003 in literature, other events of 2004, 2005 in literature, list of years in literature. ... Bertolt Brecht (born Eugen Berthold Friedrich Brecht February 10, 1898 – August 14, 1956) was an influential German socialist dramatist, stage director, and poet of the 20th century. ...

Bibliography

• 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

See also: 1981 in literature, other events of 1982, 1983 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 1983 in literature, other events of 1984, 1985 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 2001 in literature, other events of 2002, 2003 in literature, list of years in literature. ... See also: 2002 in literature, other events of 2003, 2004 in literature, list of years in literature. ... // Events June 26, 2006: J.K. Rowling reaveals that two characters will die in the seventh book of the Harry Potter series. ...

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

See also: 1990 in literature, other events of 1991, 1992 in literature, list of years in literature. ... John E. Woods is the translator of many books, including much of the fictional prose of Arno Schmidt and the works of contemporary authors such as Ingo Schulze and Christoph Ransmayr. ...

External links

• Library of Congress, New Literature from Europe, May 1998
• (German) S. Fischer Verlag, his publisher in german language