Born 1982 · Austria
Österreichischer Buchpreis 2023 · Winner
Title translated by AI:“Moons Before the Landing”
Clemens Setz · 41 when first published
Novel · 519 pages · Historical
AI-generated summary:Worms, the early 1920s. Peter Bender, a former flying officer, founds a new religious community and proclaims the hollow-earth theory: humanity lives not on but inside a sphere, and outside it there is nothing.
Österreichischer Buchpreis 2019 · Shortlist
Title translated by AI:“The Comfort of Round Things”
Clemens Setz · 37 when first published
Short stories · 314 pages
AI-generated summary:Twenty stories in which the unexpected breaks into ordinary lives: a school nurse kidnaps a boy instead of treating him, and a young man in love with a blind woman finds her flat covered in insults.
Deutscher Buchpreis 2012 · Shortlist
Indigo
Clemens Setz · 30 when first published
Novel · 386 pages · Speculative, Crime
AI-generated summary:At Helianau, a boarding school for children with the mysterious Indigo syndrome, anyone who comes near them suffers nausea, dizziness and headaches. A maths teacher notices that masked children are repeatedly driven away to an unknown destination.
Deutscher Buchpreis 2009 · Shortlist
Clemens Setz · 27 when first published
Novel · 714 pages · Love
AI-generated summary:Alexander and Walter, childhood friends, cross paths again, while Valerie is beaten up in a park and Gabi is driven to madness by mental illness and tinnitus. Life unfolds as a chain reaction of love and madness.