Norbert Gstrein (born 1961) is an Austrian writer. He was born in Mils in Tyrol,[1] the son of the hotelier and ski school director Norbert Gstrein (1931–1988) and Maria Gstrein, née Thurner (born 1935).[2] He grews up with his five siblings in Vent [de] and attended the secondary school from 1971 to 1979 in Imst.[2] From 1979 to 1984, Gstrein studied mathematics in Innsbruck, Stanford and Erlangen.[2] He not completed his PhD (no defense of his thesis Zur Logik der Fragen) in 1988 at the University of Innsbruck, under the supervision of Roman Liedl and Gerhard Frey.[3]
Gstrein is the author of more than a dozen books, including Winters in the South,[4] translated into English by Anthea Bell and Julian Evans, and A Sense of the Beginning, translated by Julian Evans.[5] Gstrein's novels have been translated into more than a dozen languages.[6] His early books were all based in his native Tyrol.[7] Among his numerous awards are the Alfred Döblin Prize and the Uwe Johnson Prize.[8]
Gstrein lives as a freelance writer in Hamburg.[2]
—— (2000). Selbstportrait mit einer Toten (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-41123-3. OCLC44493647.
—— (2004). Wem gehört eine Geschichte? : Fakten, Fiktionen und ein Beweismittel gegen alle Wahrscheinlichkeit des wirklichen Lebens (in German). Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp. ISBN3-518-41637-5. OCLC56583390.
——; Boccon-Gibod, Isabelle; Impr. Firmin-Didot (1991). Un d'ici : roman (in French). [Paris]: Gallimard. ISBN2-07-072228-7. OCLC406539377.
—— (2005). À qui appartient une histoire? : des faits, des fictions, ainsi qu'une preuve contre toute vraisemblance de la vie réelle (in French). Paris: Laurence Teper. ISBN2-9520442-9-5. OCLC77034448.