Norbert Gstrein was born in 1961 in the Tyrol, and now lives in London and Hamburg. He studied mathematics in Innsbruck and Stanford, California. He has been awarded many prizes for his work, including the prestigious Alfred Döblin prize for Die englischen Jahre, and recently the renowned Uwe Johnson prize for Das Handwerk des Tötens.

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• 1994 Freidrich Hölderlin Prize
• 1999 Alfred Döblin Prize
• 2003 Uwe Johnson Prize
• 2004 Franz Nabl Prize of the City of Graz
• 2008 Nominated for the German Book Prize (Longlist)