Claudio Magris

Magris graduated from the University of Turin, where he studied German studies, and has been a professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste since 1978. His breakthrough was Danubio (published as Danube in English) (1986), which is a magnum opus. In this book (said by the author to be a "drowned novel"), Magris tracks the course of the Danube from its sources to the sea, tracing the influences of Christendom and Islam on the formation of central Europe. Microcosmi (Microcosms in English) focuses on the Italian-Istrian borderlands. ==Decorations and awards==

• 1980: Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class • 1987: Bagutta Prize for Danubio • 1990: French Award for Best Foreign Book (essays) for Danubio • 1992: Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation • 2000: Würth Prize for European Literature • 2001: Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic • 2001: Erasmus Prize • 2001: Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding (Grand Prize) • 2001: Member of the Academy of Arts Berlin • 2004: Prince of Asturias Award for Literature • 2009: Friedenspreis des Deutschen Buchhandels • 2015: Knight Commander's Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany • 2016: Franz Kafka Prize • 2019: Thomas Mann Prize Honorary doctorates • 1991: University of Strasbourg • 2011: University of Barcelona • 2014: University of Murcia • 2014: West University of Timisoara • 2017: Free University of Berlin • 2018: University of Regensburg Memberships • 2001: Academy of the Arts, Berlin, Section Literatur • Deutsche Akademie für Sprache und Dichtung, Darmstadt • Bayerische Akademie der Schönen Künste, Munich • Akademie der Wissenschaften und der Literatur, Mainz • Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien • Accademia delle scienze di Turino • Akademie der Wissenschaften, Göttingen ==Works==

• Lontano da dove: Joseph Roth e la tradizione ebraico-orientale (1971; "Far from Where: Joseph Roth and the Oriental Hebrew Tradition") • Danubio (1986; translated as Danube: A Sentimental Journey from the Source to the Black Sea, ) • Stadelmann (1988) • Un altro mare (1991; translated as A Different Sea, ) • Microcosmi (1997; translated as Microcosms, ). • Alla cieca (2006; translated as Blindly, ) • Non luogo a procedere (2015; translated as Blameless, ) • Tiempo curvo a Krems (2019) ==See also==