Austrian writer Klaus Ebner asks a question he has been asked by numerous readers and journalists: why does he write literature? By examining his own artistic development, including early indications in childhood and at school, he tries to give an answer with this autobiographic essay, which was written originally in German and translated by the author himself to English, French and Catalan.

Klaus Ebner was born in 1964 in Vienna, Austria. He is the author of narrative prose, essays, and poetry, and he works as a translator. While most books are written in German, he also writes poetry in the Catalan language. He has received several literature prizes in Austria and Catalonia; e.g. the Wiener Werkstattpreis 2007 in the categories of short story and literary essay, and the Catalan poetry prize Premi de Poesia Parc Taulí 2014.