Arno Geiger (born 22 July 1968) is an Austrian novelist. Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied

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, ancient history and

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at the universities of Innsbruck and

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. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1993. From 1986 to 2002, he also worked as a technician at the annual

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summer opera festival. In 1996 and in 2004, he took part in the

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competition at

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. In October 2005, he was the recipient of the first Deutscher Buchpreis literature prize (awarded by the booksellers' association of Germany) for his novel ''Es geht uns gut''. First published in 2011, Geiger's autobiographical ''The Old King in His Exile'' has now, with this translation into English (published by And Other Stories in 2017), been translated into 28 languages. The memoir has won literary prizes including the 2011 Friedrich Hölderlin Prize, as well as prizes from medical societies in various countries, including the 2011 German Hospice and Palliative Care Association (DHPV) Award. Geiger lives in Wolfurt and Vienna.

Awards

* 1994 Scholarship by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Culture * 1998 Abraham Woursell Award, New York (a talent award for young European writers) * 2001 Carl-Mayer-Drehbuch-Förderpreis, Graz (a screenplay award named for screenplay writer Carl Mayer (1894–1944)) * 2005 Förderpreis zum Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis, Bad Homburg (talent award) * 2005 Deutscher Buchpreis * 2011 Friedrich Hölderlin Prize * 2011 German Hospice and Palliative Care Association (DHPV) Award * 2011

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* 2017 Alemannischer Literaturpreis

References

1968 births Living people People from Bregenz Austrian male writers German Book Prize winners {{Austria-writer-stub