Fiction

Norbert Gstrein

Photo: © Oliver Wolf

Norbert Gstrein, born 1961 in Mils (Tyrol), studied Mathematics in Innsbruck and Philosophy of Language in Stanford and Erlangen, before gaining a doctorate at Innsbruck University in 1988. He lives with his family as a freelance writer in Hamburg.

(Updated: 2020)

Awards

  • 2019 Austrian Book Prize
  • 2018 City of Innsbruck Prize – Literature
  • 2013 Anton Wildgans Prize
  • 2003 Uwe Johnson Prize
  • 2001 Konrad Adenauer Foundation Literature Prize
  • 1999 Alfred Döblin Preis
  • 1994 Berlin Prize for Literature
  • 1989 Ingeborg Bachmann Prize

More Publications

Die kommenden Jahre
Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2018.
 
In der freien Welt
Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2016.
 
Die ganze Wahrheit
Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2010.
 
Die Winter im Süden
Novel. Carl Hanser Verlag, Munich 2008.
 
Die englischen Jahre
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1999.
 
Das Register
Novel. Suhrkamp Verlag, Frankfurt 1992.
 

Featured Books

Book cover When I Was Young

Als ich jung war
[When I Was Young]

Carl Hanser Verlag

Book cover An inkling of the beginning

Eine Ahnung vom Anfang
[An inkling of the beginning]

Carl Hanser Verlag

Book cover The craft of killing

Das Handwerk des Tötens
[The craft of killing]

Carl Hanser Verlag

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