Norbert Gstrein (born 1961) is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol,[1] the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner (born 1935).[2] He grews up with his five siblings in Vent and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst.[2] From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen.[2] He not completed his PhD (no defense of his thesis Zur Logik der Fragen) in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey.[3]
Gstrein is the author of more than a dozen books, including Winters in the South,[4] translated into English by Anthea Bell and Julian Evans, and A Sense of the Beginning, translated by Julian Evans.[5] Gstrein's novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages.[6] His early books were all based in his native Tyrol.[7] Among his numerous awards are the Alfred Döblin Prize and the Uwe Johnson Prize.[8]
Gstrein lives as a freelance writer in Hamburg.[2]
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