Vladimir Vertlib born in 1966 in Leningrad, emigrated with his family to Israel in 1971, moved to Austria in 1981 and now lives as a freelance writer in Salzburg. Novels published by Deuticke include Zwischenstationen (1999), Das besondere Gedächtnis der Rosa Masur (2001), Schimons Schweigen (2012) and Lucia Binar und die russische Seele, which was longlisted for the 2015 German Book Prize.