Michael Köhlmeier

Michael Köhlmeier
b. 1949, is an Austrian writer. He has received numerous awards for his collected oeuvre, including the Literature Prize of the Konrad Adenauer Foundation (2017) as well as the Marie Luise Kaschnitz Prize, and the Ferdinand Berger Prize in 2019. Recently published: Frankie, 2023

The idea that literature is permitted everything and thus also cherry-picks from history and shapes it, Köhlmeier has always excluded himself from this poetic freedom. He is a narrator by grace and one who is more concerned with the stories than with history.
Sandra Kegel, FAZ