Arno Geiger (* July 22 1968 in Bregenz) is an Austrian novelist. Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied Germanistik, Ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as a freelance writer since 1993. From 1986 to 2002, he also worked as a video technician at the annual Bregenzer Festspiele summer opera festival. In 1996 and in 2004, he took part in the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Preis competition at Klagenfurt. In October 2005, he was the recipient of the first Deutscher Buchpreis literature prize (awarded by the booksellers' association of Germany) for his novel Es geht uns gut (German for We are all right). Geiger lives in Wolfurt and Vienna.
Awards
- 1994 Scholarship by the Austrian Ministry of Science and Culture
- 1998 Abraham Woursell Award, New York (a talent award for young European writers)
- 2001 Carl-Mayer-Drehbuch-Förderpreis, Graz (a screenplay award named for screenplay writer Carl Mayer (1894-1944))
- 2005 Förderpreis zum Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis, Bad Homburg (talent award)
- 2005 Deutscher Buchpreis
