Marlene Streeruwitz

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Marlene Streeruwitz was born in Baden near Vienna and studied Slavic studies and art history in Vienna. She worked as an editor from 1989 onwards and initially wrote radio plays. Her breakthrough as a playwright came in 1992. She has been writing more novels since 1996. She has received a number of prizes for her work and has been repeatedly invited to give poetry lectures.

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Marlene Streeruwitz (2013)

It is a world that is often confusing, violent, disorderly and inconsistent. It is probably our world. It is presented in often surprising literary forms, in captivating experiments even with dime novels and science fiction and in a highly idiosyncratic language. Encountering these works is an adventure.

Prizes and awards (selection):

  • 1996 Mara Cassens Prize
  • 1999 Austrian State Prize for Literature
  • 2001 Hermann Hesse Literature Prize
  • 2002 Walter Hasenclever Prize for Literature