Paulus Hochgatterer

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Born in Amstetten in Lower Austria on 16 July 1961.
Studied Medicine and Psychology in Vienna.
Graduated in 1985, then trained as a specialist in Psychiatry and Neurology, and now lives and works as an author and child psychologist in Vienna.

Books include:

• Ãœber die Chirurgie (On Surgery). Novel. Vienna: Deuticke, 1993.
• Die Nystensche Regel (Nysten's Rule). Stories. Vienna: Deuticke, 1995.
• Wildwasser (White Water). Story. Vienna, Munich: Deuticke, 1997.
• Caretta Caretta. Novel. Vienna, Munich: Deuticke, 1999.
• Ãœber Raben (On Ravens). Novel. Vienna, Frankfurt am Main: Deuticke, 2002.
• Eine kurze Geschichte vom Fliegenfischen. (A Short History of Fly Fishing). Story. Vienna, Frankfurt am Main: Deuticke, 2003.
• Die Süße des Lebens. (The Sweetness of Life). Vienna: Deuticke, 2006.
• Das Matratzenhausn (The House of Mattresses). Vienna: Deuticke, 2010.
• Katzen, Körper, Krieg der Knöpfe (Cats, Bodies, War of the Buttons). A Poetics of Childhood. Vienna: Deuticke, 2012.
• Der Tag, an dem mein Großvater ein Held war (The Day When My Grandfather Was A Hero). Story. Vienna: Deuticke, 2017.

Prizes and awards include:

• 2000 Austrian State Prize for Literature for Children and Young People
• 2001 Elias Canetti Scholarship
• 2007 German Prize for Detective Fiction
• 2009 European Literature Prize
• 2010 Johann Beer Prize
• 2010 Austrian Art Prize (for the field of literature)
• 2011 Stuttgart Prize for Detective Fiction for the best German-language detective novel of 2010 (for Das Matratzenhaus)

(25.01.2018)

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