Christoph Ransmayr was born in 1954 in Wels, in Upper Austria. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. He was editor of the Viennese literary review Extrablatt and wrote for a variety of German periodicals. He now lives in Cork, in Ireland. His first novel was about the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition of 1872-1874.
Christoph Ransmayr was born in 1954 in Wels, in Upper Austria. He studied philosophy at the University of Vienna. He was editor of the Viennese literary review Extrablatt and wrote for a variety of German periodicals. He now lives in Cork, in Ireland. His first novel was about the Austro-Hungarian North Pole expedition of 1872-1874.
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