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Christoph Ransmayr, born in Austria in 1954, studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. Alongside popular and internationally acclaimed novels such as "Die letzte Welt", "Cox oder Der Lauf der Zeit" and "Atlas eines ängstlichen Mannes", he has published ten works of prose in which he experiments with narrative form, including "Damen und Herren unter Wasser", "Geständnisse eines Touristen", "Der Wolfsjäger", and "Arznei gegen die Sterblichkeit". The edited volume "Bericht am Feuer" is dedicated to his work. His books have been translated into over thirty languages and have received numerous literary awards, including the Friedrich Hölderlin, the Franz Kafka, and the Bert Brecht prizes, the Kleist Prize, the Premio Mondello, and, together with Salman Rushdie, the European Union's Prix Aristeion, as well as the Prix du meilleur livre étranger, the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne and the Pak Kyongni Prize.