Oswald Egger is a South Tyrolean (Italy) lyricist and writer in the German language.
He is the 2024 recipient of the Georg-Büchner Prize,[1] which is "considered the most important literary award in the Germanophone language area".
[2] Egger was born in Lana, South Tyrol, in 1963.
He lives, like many other South Tyrolean intellectuals, in Vienna, Austria.
[3] Widely known by literati as a poet, Egger has also written prose texts.