Robert Menasse

Robert Menasse (born 1954 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer and essayist. He studied German literature, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina, and received his doctorate in 1980 with a thesis on the outsider in the literary world. He then taught for six years at the University of São Paulo, first as a lecturer in Austrian literature and later as a guest lecturer in literary theory. His novels include “The Expulsion from Hell” (2001), “The Capital” (2017) and “The Enlargement” (2022). He received the German Book Prize for “The Capital.” His award-winning essays on Europe include “The European Courier” (2012) and “The World of Tomorrow” (2024).