About Vea Kaiser
Vea Kaiser was born in 1988 and lives in Vienna, where she studied classical philology. In 2012, she published her first novel, Blasmusikpop oder Wie die Wissenschaft in die Berge kam (Brass Band Pop or How Science Came to the Mountains), which reached number one on the ORF bestseller list and was named the best German-language debut at the international Festival du Premier Roman. “Makarionissi oder die Insel der Seligen” (Makarionissi or the Island of the Blessed) followed in 2015 and received the “Best Family Novel” award from the Ravensburger Verlag Foundation. Vea Kaiser's third novel, “Rückwärtswalzer oder die Manen der Familie Prischinger” (Backward Waltz or the Manes of the Prischinger Family), was published in 2019, and in 2024 she was awarded the international Jonathan Swift Prize for satirical and comic literature.
