Christoph W. Bauer

Christoph W. Bauer (born 1968 in Kolbnitz) is an Austrian author. He grew up in Lienz and Kirchberg in Tirol and is currently living in Innsbruck.

His works have been awarded with the Prize of the Academy of Graz (2001), with the Reinhard-Priessnitz-Prize (2001) and the Prize for Lyricism by the city Innsbruck (2002). Furthermore, he won the 2002 Audience Award of the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Competition in Klagenfurt. Christoph W. Bauer was also chief editor of the literary journal ''Wagnis''.

Christoph W. Bauer explains his work as a continuation of existing traditions. He identifies himself with a ''poeta legens'', who finds, changes, renews and continues topics from the world literature. Provided by Wikipedia