Karl-Markus Gauß

The foremost literary cartographer of a vanishing Europe, Karl-Markus Gauß has written more than two dozen books and numerous articles and essays for German, Swiss and Austrian newspapers and magazines. The jury for the 2018 Jean Améry Preis praised him as “a writer, who takes the idea of a borderless Europe literally and crosses imaginary borders between East and West with consummate ease in order to explore a continent that is still unknown to most of us.” Born in Salzburg in 1954, Gauß edited the literary journal Literatur and Kritik from 1991 to 2022 and has been a member of the German Academy of Language and Poetry since 2006.