Peter Karoshi

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Biography

Peter Karoshi, born 1975 in Graz, studied history, English and American studies at the University of Graz. From 1999 to 2005 he worked in the transdisciplinary research area Modernity – Vienna and Central Europe around 1900 at the Department of Austrian History in Graz, where he studied heterogeneities, pluralities and cultures of memory in multi-ethnic states. In 2009, his first novel Grünes, grünes Gras (Green, Green Grass) was published by Milena Verlag. His novel Zu den Elefanten (the Elephants), published by Leykam Buchverlag, was nominated for the Deutschen Buchpreis in August 2021. Peter Karoshi currently lives in Vienna.

Nominated book : Zu den Elefanten (The Elephants)

Summary

The cultural scientist Theo is stuck in a strange state of limbo when he resolves to change his relationship with his wife Anna and his son Moritz. Together with Moritz, he undertakes a journey along the route that the future Emperor Maximilian II took with the elephant Soliman from the Mediterranean to Vienna centuries ago. This time they travel in the opposite direction, from Austria via South Tyrol to Genoa. But the team soon faces major problems. Seemingly lost in himself and despairing of the present, Theo tells in diary form of a journey towards the realization that it is the past, memories and memory that shape the present. A journey that takes a dramatic turn and through which the narrator realizes that life is a stream of attempts to explain and observe. And that one must first lose oneself to find each other.

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Special publications
2023