The Seasons of Eternity
The years between his 60th and 65th birthdays provide the frame for Karl-Markus Gauß’ journals. But this »sensitive chronicler of daily life« (Neue Zürcher Zeitung) entices us into ...
moreKarl-Markus Gauß
Karl-Markus Gauß was born in 1954 in Salzburg, where he still lives and works as an Author and publisher of the magazine Literatur und Kritik. His books have been translated into numerous languages and have received many prizes, including the Prix Charles Veillon, the Austrian Art Prize for Literature, the Johann Heinrich Merck Prize, the Jean Améry Prize and just very recently the Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 2022. His most recent publications with Zsolnay are Abenteuerliche Reise durch mein Zimmer (2019) and Die unaufhörliche Wanderung (2020).
The Never-Ending Trek
Leipzig Book Award for European Understanding 2022
The book by Karl-Markus Gauß that you’ve always wanted to read. He reports on a Muslim sommelier in the Albanian town of Berat ...
An Adventurous Journey Through my Room
Everyday things, everyday life, stories set in past eras: an expedition into the realm of objects by Karl-Markus Gauß.
Many seek adventure in far-off places. But Karl-Markus Gauß, a ...
Twenty Levs or Death
Karl-Markus Gauß is travelling again. In the Republic of Moldova, Europe’s poorest country, he becomes infected with »Moldovan longing« – a sympathy for the country and its people. And in ...
moreThe Everyday World
Everyday life is full of wonders and impositions. The world: a place yet to be discovered. Karl-Markus Gauß’ latest book is a lesson in astonishment.
The spectrum spanned by this ...
The First Thing I Set Eyes on
Seeing, hearing, smelling, feeling. Karl-Markus Gauß describes the earliest sensory experiences of a small boy in the mid-twentieth century, and at the same time paints a portrait of the author ...
moreFame in the Afternoon
In a series of observations that transcend time, national boundaries and genre, Gauß ruminates on life and death.
He describes a girl in Britain who turns her impending death into a public ...