Arno Geiger was born 1968 in Bregenz and lives in Vienna. Previous publications at Hanser include the novels » Es geht uns gut» (2005), and most recently, Anna nicht vergessen (2007), a collection of short stories.
His work has won him the Friedrich Hölderlin Prize (2005), the German Book Prize (2005), and the Johann Peter Hebbel Prize (2008).