Frankie
Frank is fourteen and lives in Vienna. He likes to cook and spend evenings at home with his mother. But then his life is turned upside down. His grandfather, whom Frank has only met a handful of ...
moreMichael Köhlmeier
Michael Köhlmeier, who was born in 1949 in Hard am Bodensee, lives in Hohenems / Vorarlberg and Vienna. Hanser has published, among others, his novels Abendland (2007), Madalyn (2010), Die Abenteuer des Joel Spazierer (2013), Zwei Herren am Strand (2014), Das Mädchen mit dem Fingerhut (2016) and Bruder und Schwester Lenobel (2018), as well as two volumes of poetry and the novella Der Mann, der Verlorenes wiederfindet (2017), and most recently Die Märchen (with illustrations by Nikolaus Heidelbach, 2019). Michael Köhlmeier has received many awards, most recently the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation and the Marie-Luise-Kaschnitz Prize for his complete works in 2017, as well as the Ferdinand Berger Prize in 2019.
Matou
Seven lives, one novel
Michael Köhlmeier’s opus magnum
Humanity’s great questions, seen from the perspective of a cat that lives its seven lives, from the French ...
Fairy Tales
As a child, Michael Köhlmeier listened to and read fairy tales, just like all of us. Today he writes the fairy tales of our time. And for each one, there is a mysterious picture by Nikolaus ...
moreHe who throws the first stone
Betrayal, deception and intrigue: whoever has suffered the worst forms of human malice is often only left one path with which to liberate himself: damning his opponent. World literature has many ...
moreThe Lenobel Siblings
Where is Robert Lenobel? Has he really gone crazy? Hanna, his wife, is convinced he has. But Jetti knows him better – after all, as his sister, she’s known him all his life. With great ...
moreThe Man Who Rediscovered What Was Lost
Saint Anthony was a man like any other: he had his own maladies and memories from childhood to death. But once upon a time, he sensed that he had a vocation, and that his future lay in sainthood. ...
moreA Role Model For Animals
Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize 2017
“For Michael Köhlmeier, writing poetry is an attempt to get to the heart of the world in a poetic way.”
Hansjörg Graf, Neue Zürcher ...