Andrea Grill

Andrea Grill (2012)

Andrea Grill (born January 16, 1975 in Bad Ischl ) is an Austrian biologist and writer .

Life

Andrea Grill studied biology, Italian , Spanish and linguistics in Salzburg , Thessaloniki and Tirana . She lived for several years in Cagliari in Sardinia and received her doctorate in philosophy from the University of Amsterdam in 2003 with a thesis on the butterflies of Sardinia . In addition to her academic work, she writes literary texts and translates from Albanian . In 2007 she took part in the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in Klagenfurt . After stays in Amsterdam , Neuchâtel and Bologna , she now lives in Vienna . She was a scholarship holder at the Literary Colloquium Berlin and at Schloss Wiepersdorf . In November 2010 she was awarded the Bremen Literature Prize 2011.

In her novel Cherubino (2019), based on the character of the same name from Mozart's opera Le nozze di Figaro , Grill demystifies the contemporary model of the self-determined woman. She tells of a 39-year-old mezzo-soprano who lives alone but doesn't want to live alone . However, the deliberate pregnancy endangers her future as a soprano , so she plays hide and seek with herself and the world. Cherubino made it onto the longlist of the German Book Prize 2019.

Works

Endemism in Sardinia. Evolution, ecology, and conservation of the butterfly Maniola nurag. Amsterdam 2003.
The yellow uncle. A family album. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2005, ISBN 3-7013-1105-6 .
Two step. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2007, ISBN 978-3-7013-1125-5 .
Laughing tears. Novel. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2008, ISBN 978-3-7013-1153-8 .
The beautiful and the necessary. Novel. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2010, ISBN 978-3-7013-1169-9 .
Happy bastards. Poems. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg / Vienna 2011, ISBN 978-3-7013-1188-0 .
Off to Salzburg. The hidden, the bizarre, the culinary. Folio Verlag, Vienna / Bozen 2011, ISBN 978-3-85256-553-8 .
Love machine NYC Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-7013-1199-6 .
Safari, inner wilderness. Otto Müller Verlag, Salzburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-7013-1217-7 .
Doctor Caspari's paradise . Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-552-05744-9 .
Butterflies. A portrait. Verlag Matthes & Seitz Berlin, Berlin 2016. ISBN 978-3-95757-249-3 .
Fiffy + Maurice . Picture book. With pictures by Deborah Sengl . Luftschacht Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-903081-35-2 .
Cherubino. Novel. Paul Zsolnay Verlag, Vienna 2019, ISBN 978-3-552-05949-8 .

Translations

Mimoza Ahmeti : milk kiss. Novel. Salzburg 2009
Luljeta Lleshanaku : children of nature. Vienna 2010.

Awards and nominations

2010 Otto Stoessl Prize

2011 Bremen Literature Prize Promotion Prize

2013 Prize for Literature from the City of Vienna

2019 German Book Prize - Longlist ( Cherubino )

literature

Theo Breuer : Twenty Days - Twenty Novels: A Book Game . In: Matrix . Journal for literature and art , 58th edition, Pop Verlag, Ludwigsburg 2019, pp. 7–167.