Austria

Wolfgang Astelbauer

Wolfgang Astelbauer was born in Weitersfeld, Austria, in 1953, and studied English and German literature at the University of Vienna. A translator and editor, he has worked in several publishing houses…...

Karl-Markus Gauss

Karl-Markus Gauss is a prolific Austrian essayist, editor, and literary critic. Among his numerous book publications are ethnographies and travelogues such as Die sterbenden Europaër and wide-ranging…...

Robert Menasse

Born in 1954 in Vienna, Robert Menasse studied German language and literature, philosophy and political science in Vienna, Salzburg, and Messina. Today he lives in Vienna and Amsterdam and works as a novelist…...

Elfriede Jelinek

Elfriede Jelinek was born in Austria in 1946 and grew up in Vienna, where she attended the famous Music Conservatory. The leading Austrian writer of her generation, she received the Heinrich Böll…...

Martin Auer

Martin Auer was born in 1951 in Vienna. He studied German and History but never completed his degree; he worked as an actor, a singer-songwriter, a journalist and a magician before publishing his first…...

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