!!!Ransmayr, Christoph

b. Wels (Upper Austria), March 20, 1954, narrative writer, essayist. 
Studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna, 1978-1982 cultural editor 
of the periodical "Extrablatt". Initially wrote literary reports and 
essays for various periodicals; his first novel "Die Schrecken des 
Eises und der Finsternis" (1984) combines documents of the 
Austro-Hungarian expedition to the North Pole in 1872-1874 with 
fictitious passages; his novel "Die letzte Welt" (1988) was 
particularly successful. 1989 Anton-Wildgans prize, 1996 Aristeion 
Prize of the EU, 1998 Hoelderlin Prize.

!Further works
Strahlender Untergang - Ein Entwaesserungsprojekt oder 
Die Entdeckung des Wesentlichen, 1982; Morbus Kitahara, 1995; Der Weg 
nach Surabaya, 1997. - Ed.: Im blinden Winkel. Nachrichten aus 
Mitteleuropa, 1985.

!Literature
C. Bader, Antike und Mythos: Deduktion und Produktion von 
Mythen in C. R. Roman "Die letzte Welt", master's thesis, Vienna 1993.


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