Norbert Gstrein

Norbert Gstrein, born in Tyrol in 1961, is a German-language writer. His works include the short-story collections »Andertags« and »In der Luft«, the novels »The English Years«, »The Art of Killing«, »An Intimation of the Beginning«, »In the Free World«, »When I Was Young«, »The Second Jacob« and »Four Days, Three Nights«, as well as the report »Der Kommerzialrat« and the novella »O2«. Gstrein has received, among others, the Alfred Döblin Prize, the Uwe Johnson Prize, the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Literature Prize, the Berlin Literature Prize, the Düsseldorf Literature Prize, the Austrian Book Prize and the Thomas Mann Prize. »The Second Jacob« was shortlisted for the German Book Prize in 2021.