Raoul Schrott

Raoul Schrott was born in 1964 in Landeck, Tyrol, and grew up between Tyrol and Tunis. He studied literature and linguistics at universities in Innsbruck, Norwich, Paris, and Berlin. In 1986 and ’87, he served as assistant to the writer Philippe Soupault. Schrott wrote his dissertation on Dadaism and completed his post-doctoral thesis in 1996 at the University of Innsbruck’s Institute of Comparative Literature. He has held guest professorships in Berlin and Bern as well as a lectureship in poetry in Tübingen. He is now a freelance writer (of poetry, novels, and essays) and translator. His numerous literary awards include the Leonce and Lena Award in 1995, the Rauris Literature Award in 1996, the Peter Huchel Poetry Award in 1999, the Joseph Breitbach Award in 2004, and the Tyrol State Award for Art in 2009. He lives in the Bregenz Forest of Vorarlberg.

Selected books:

Finis Terrae. Ein Nachlaß. (The End of the Earth: A bequest.) Novel. Innsbruck: Haymon, 1995.
Tristan da Cunha oder Die Hälfte der Erde. (Tristan da Cunha, or Half of the Earth.) Novel. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2003.
Handbuch der Wolkenputzerei. (A Guide to Cloud-Cleaning.) Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2005.
Die fünfte Welt. Ein Logbuch. (The Fifth World: A logbook). Innsbruck: Haymon Verlag, 2007.
Das schweigende Kind. (The Silent Child.) Novel. Munich: Hanser, 2012.
Erste Erde. Epos. (First Earth. An epic.) Munich: Hanser, 2016.
Politiken & Ideen. (Politics & Ideas.) Essays. Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2018.
Eine Geschichte des Windes oder Von dem deutschen Kanonier der erstmals die Welt umrundete und dann ein zweites und ein drittes Mal. (A History of the Wind, or The German Gunner who Once Rounded the World and then a Second and Third Time.) Munich: Carl Hanser Verlag, 2019.

Many more books by Raoul Schrott:
https://www.hanser-literaturverlage.de/autor/raoul-schrott/

(17.10.2019)

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