Christoph Ransmayr (Toji Cultural Foundation) Austrian writer Christoph Ransmayr has been selected as the recipient of the 12th Park Kyung-ni Literary Prize, the award's organizers said Wednesday.This year, a total of 37 nominees were chosen through four rounds of preliminary screening from among 234 novelists from around the world. In June, four writers -- Ransmayr, Cormac McCarthy, Margaret Atwood and Antonio Lobo Antunes -- were nominated as the finalists.The 69-year-old Austrian writer won global recognition with his novel 'The Last World' (1988), a rewrite of the Roman poet Ovid's "Metamorphoses," winning major European literary awardsOther major works include 'The Terrors of Ice and Darkness' inspired by sketches and records of the North Pole expedition, 'The Flying Mountain,' 'The Dog King' and 'Atlas of an Anxious Man.

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