Christoph Ransmayr was born in 1954 in Wels/Upper Austria and now lives again in Vienna after years in Ireland and traveling. Alongside popular and internationally acclaimed novels such as The Terrors of Ice and Darkness , The Last World , Morbus Kitahara , The Flying Mountain , Cox or The Course of Time , The Lockmaster. A Short Story of Killing and the Atlas of an Anxious Man he publishes experiments with narrative forms, like Under a Sky of Sugar. Ballads and Poems which has recently been sold to Seagull Books. Among other literary awards, he has received 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 and the Prix Jean Monnet de Littérature Européenne.
