Alois Hotschnig was born in 1959 and lives as a freelance author in Innsbruck. His novella Aus (Over) was published in 1989 and received the Kärnten Sponsorship Award. Eine Art Glück (A Kind of Luck) followed in 1990 and in 1992 he won the Prize of the County Kärnten at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt....