The Wolf Hunter

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.

Martin Pollack, born in Bad Hall/Austria in 1944, studied in Vienna and Warsaw, spent many years as a SPIEGEL correspondent in Warsaw and is now a writer and translator of Polish literature in Vienna. His most recent books are Anklage Vatermord. Der Fall Philipp Halsmann (2001), Der Tote im Bunker. Bericht über meinen Vater (2004) and Kaiser von Amerika. Die große Flucht aus Galizien (2011).