Arno Camenisch, born and raised in Tavanasa in the Swiss canton of Grisons in 1978, studied at the Swiss Literature Institute in Biel. In 2009, Engeler Verlag published his first novel, The Alp, which was followed by eleven more books. His work has been translated into more than twenty languages, and his readings have taken him across the world, from Hong Kong to Moscow and Buenos Aires to New York. In March 2015, he released the documentary Arno Camenisch – Writing on the Edge.