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Christoph Ransmayr

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March 20, 1954 in Austria

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Born in Wels, Upper Austria Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as cultural editor for the newspaper Extrablatt from 1978 to 1982, also publishing articles and essays in GEO, TransAtlantik and Merian. After his novel Die letzte Welt was published in 1988 he did extensive traveling in Ireland, Asia, North and South America. In 1994 he moved to West Cork, Ireland, as a friend offered him to lease a splendid house at the Atlantic coast for a very affordable rent, and also because of the artists exemption in the Irish income taxation. In 1997 Ransmayr read his short story Die dritte Luft oder Eine Bühne am Meer, written for this occasion, as...more

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Average rating: 3.81 · 297 ratings · 30 reviews · 16 distinct works

	The Last World by Christoph Ransmayr, John E. Woods (Translator) 3.84 avg rating — 131 ratings — published 1988 — 18 editions	My rating:
	Morbus Kitahara 3.57 avg rating — 69 ratings — published 1995 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Terrors of Ice and Darkness by Christoph Ransmayr, John E. Woods (Translator) 3.89 avg rating — 57 ratings — published 1984 — 9 editions	My rating:
	Der Fliegende Berg 4.39 avg rating — 23 ratings — published 2007 — 6 editions	My rating:
	Der Weg nach Surabaya 3.30 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1997 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Die ersten Jahre der Ewigkeit 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2001	My rating:
	Gesta&#X308;Ndnisse Eines Touristen: Ein Verho&#X308;R 4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Die dritte Luft oder Eine Bühne am Meer 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Damen Und Herren Unter Wasser 3.00 avg rating — 2 ratings	My rating:
	Les effrois de la glace et des ténèbres 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings	My rating: