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Peter Waterhouse (*1956, Germany) studied German and English language and literature and received his doctorate in 1984 with a dissertation on Paul Celan. He is an a writer and translator and lives in Vienna. On awarding Peter Waterhouse the Erich Fried Prize in 2007, the jury member Ilma Rakusa said: “Peter Waterhouse is one of the most idiosyncratic voices in modern German-language literature. Since the early 1980s, in his poetry, prose, theatre plays and poetological essays, he has been dealing with the question of how language and the world relate to one another. His careful approach to objects, landscapes and people gets to the bottom of this paradoxical relationship over and again and creates epiphanies in the most emphatic sense." Peter Waterhouse’s latest work, published in 2006, was the novel "Krieg und Welt".