Heinrich Steinfest

Heinrich Steinfest (* 10 April 1961 in Albury, Australia) is a multiple award-winning Austrian writer of crime novels, born in Australia.^[1] Two years after his birth, his emigrant parents moved back to their native Vienna where he lived until moving to Stuttgart a few years ago.

His novels contain bizarre examples of events that seemingly confound or analysis. His most formidable character is Cheng, a Viennese detective with no clear ties to China, born in Vienna to Chinese parents driven there by their enthusiasm for the Viennese waltz.

Awards he has won include the Deutscher Krimi Preis in 2004, 2006, 2008 and 2009.

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