Last Movement

Robert Seethaler was born in Vienna in 1966 and is the author of several novels including A Whole Life, which was shortlisted for the International Booker Prize, The Tobacconist, which was a number one German bestseller and The Café with No Name, which also topped the German charts with more than half a million copies sold. HIs works have been translated into over 40 languages. Charlotte Collins studied English at Cambridge University. She worked as an actor and radio journalist in both Germany and the UK before becoming a literary translator. Her translation of A Whole Life was awarded the Helen & Kurt Wolff Translator's Prize in 2017. She has translated three other novels by Robert Seethaler, as well as works by Nino Haratischwili, Eva Menasse and Bernhard Schlink.

Seethaler is known for celebrating the unsung . . . who draw us into their quiet lives. A distinguished miniaturist