Thomas Glavinic

With Kathrin Röggla and Daniel Kehlmann, he is among other contemporary Austrian authors being perceived as significantly shaping the literary discussion in Austria.

The former writer of advertising copy and taxi driver emerged with his 1998 debut novel Carl Haffner's Love of the Draw.

In 2001, the criminal novel Der Kameramörder (The Camera Murderer) (awarded the Friedrich-Glauser-Prize at the Criminale) was published and was enthusiastically celebrated by the feuilletons due to its criticism of the media.

1 on the Austrian bestseller list) with his satiric development-novel Wie man leben soll (How to Live), written from the perspective of the indefinite "one".

His novel, Das bin doch ich (That's Me), appeared in summer of 2007 and was nominated for the German Book Prize.