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Christoph Ransmayr


Austria (b.1954)

Christoph Ransmayr was 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.
 


Genres: Historical
 
Novels
   The Last World (1990)
   The Terrors of Ice and Darkness (1991)
   The Dog King (1997)
   The Flying Mountain (2018)
   Cox: Or the Course of Time (2020)
   The Lockmaster (2024)
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Non fiction show
 
Award nominations
2018 International Booker Prize (nominee) : The Flying Mountain


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