About the Author

Translated in more than twenty countries, Robert Menasse is one of the leading voices in Austrian literature. Major Awards 1990 Heimito von Doderer Prize 1994 Alexander Sacher Masoch Prize 1998 Osterreichischer Staatspreis fur Kulturpublizistik 2002 Joseph Breitbach Prize 2002 Friedrich Holderlin Prize 2002 Lion Feuchtwanger Prize 2002 Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize 2003 Erich Fried Prize.