Alexander Pechmann

Born in Vienna in 1968, Alexander Pechmann studied sociology, psychology, and English and American literary studies. He worked as a freelance author, editor, and translator, translating and editing numerous works of 19th- and early 20th-century English and American literature, including works by Herman Melville, Mary Shelley, Mark Twain, Robert Louis Stevenson, and Rudyard Kipling. His publications included Herman Melville. Leben und Werk (2003), Mary Shelley. Leben und Werk (2006), and the novels Sieben Lichter (2017), Die Nebelkrähe (2019), Die zehnte Muse (2020), and Im Jahr des schwarzen Regens (2021).