Arno Geiger

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Born in 1968 in Bregenz, grew up in Wolfurt / Vorarlberg.
Studied German Philology, Comparative Literature, and Ancient History in Innsbruck and Vienna, graduating from Vienna University in 1993.
1996 and 2004: took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition.
1997: published his debut novel, Kleine Schule des Karussellfahrens.
2005: awarded the German Book Prize for the novel Es geht uns gut (We Are Doing Fine).
Lives as a freelance writer in Vienna and Wolfurt / Vorarlberg.

Prizes and distinctions (selection):

• 1999/2000 State Scholarship for Literature
• 2005 German Book Prize
• 2011 Friedrich Hölderlin Prize of the town of Bad Homburg
• 2012 Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry
• 2017 Alemannischer Literaturpreis
• 2018 Joseph-Breitbach Prize
  
  

Books (small selection):

• Es geht uns gut. Novel. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2005.
  English translation: We Are Doing Fine, trans. Wolfgang Nehring
  (Riverside, CA: Ariadne Press, 2011).
• Alles über Sally. Novel. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2010.
• Der alte König in seinem Exil. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2011.
  English translation: The Old King in His Exile, trans. Stefan Tobler
  (Brooklyn, NY, and Sheffield, UK, 2017).
• Selbstporträt mit Flußpferd. Novel. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2015.
• Unter der Drachenwand. (In the Shadow of the Drachenwand) Novel. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2017.
  
  

Podcast: http://www.arno-geiger.de/

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