Anna Mitgutsch

Anna Mitgutsch at the 2019 Adalbert Stifter Prize

Anna Mitgutsch (born October 2, 1948 in Linz ) is an Austrian literary scholar and writer.

Life

Anna Mitgutsch studied English and German at the University of Salzburg . She made numerous trips to Southeast Asia and the Middle East, lived for a long time in Israel, and taught from 1971 to 1973 at the British universities of Hull University and University of East Anglia. In 1974 she did her doctorate at the University of Salzburg with a dissertation on English poetry of the sixties. From 1975 to 1978 she was a research assistant at the Institute for American Studies at the University of Innsbruck. In 1978/1979 she was visiting professor of English literature at Ewha Women's University in Seoul and from 1979 to 1985 she taught German and German at Amherst College in Massachusetts, Sarah Lawrence College in New York, Tufts University and Simmons College in Boston Literature. In the 1990s she was writer-in-residence at Oberlin College (Ohio), Lafayette College, and Allegheny College (Pennsylvania). She lives as a freelance writer in Linz with several long stays in the USA.

Awards

Mitgutsch, who is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly and Vice President of the IG Authors Authors and who was a member of the PEN Club Austria until she left the Austrian PEN Club in 2000, received the following awards:

• 1985: Brothers Grimm Prize of the City of Hanau
• 1986: Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria
• 1992: Anton Wildgans Prize
• 1996: Austrian Prize for Literature
• 2000: Austrian Prize for Literature
• 2002: Solothurn Literature Prize
• 2004: Art Prize of the City of Linz
• 2007: Heinrich Gleißner Prize
• 2015: Awarded an honorary doctorate from the University of Salzburg .
• 2016: Awarded the Johann Beer Literature Prize for her novel Die Approach .
• 2019: Grand Culture Prize of the Province of Upper Austria ( Adalbert Stifter Prize )

Works

• To the lyrics by Ted Hughes. Diss. Phil., Salzburg 1974
• The chastisement. Roman, Düsseldorf (Claassen) 1985; dtv ISBN 978-3-423-10798-3
• The other face. Roman, Düsseldorf (Claassen) 1986; dtv ISBN 978-3-423-13688-4
• Exclusion. Roman, Frankfurt am Main (Luchterhand) 1989 ISBN 978-3-630-86690-1 ; dtv
• In strange cities. Roman, Hamburg (Luchterhand) 1992 ISBN 978-3-630-86778-6 ; dtv
• Farewell to Jerusalem. Roman, Berlin (Rowohlt Berlin) 1995, dtv ISBN 978-3-423-13388-3
• Remember and invent. Grazer Vorlesungen, Graz (Droschl) 1999 ISBN 978-3-854-20521-0
• Childhood home. Roman, Munich (Luchterhand) 2000 ISBN 978-3-630-87064-9 ; dtv
• Family celebration. Roman, Munich (Luchterhand) 2003; btb ISBN 978-3-442-73349-1
• Two lives and one day. Roman, Munich (Luchterhand) 2007 ISBN 978-3-630-87256-8 ; btb ISBN 978-3-442-73844-1
• When you come back. Roman, Munich (Luchterhand) 2010 ISBN 978-3-641-04345-2 ; btb ISBN 978-3-442-74202-8
• The limits of language. On the edges of the silence. Essays, in the series Unrest preserve, Residenz-Verlag (St. Pölten) 2013. ISBN 978-3-701-71607-4
• The world that remains a mystery. Essays. Munich (Luchterhand) 2013. ISBN 978-3-630-87418-0
• The approach. Novel. Munich (Luchterhand) 2016 ISBN 978-3-630-87470-8 ; btb 2018 ISBN 978-3-442-71591-6

Translations

• John Gallahue : By His Holiness's orders . Roman, Vienna (Szolnay) 1975
• Philip Larkin : Poems , Stuttgart (Klett-Cotta) 1988

literature

• Anne Rothe: Constructing memory in / through contemporary German literature , Los Angeles, Calif. 2003
• Kristin Tünschmann: About the fascination of the unspeakable , Frankfurt am Main [u. a.] 2003
• Anna Mitgutsch , Linz 2004
• Kurt Bartsch and Günther A. Höfler (eds.): DOSSIER 28: Anna Mitgutsch, Graz / Vienna 2009

Web links

Commons : Anna Mitgutsch  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Literature by and about Anna Mitgutsch in the catalog of the German National Library
• Anna Mitgutsch in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Homepage of the author
• Entry on Anna Mitgutsch by Evelyne Polt-Heinzl for the Upper Austrian literary history of the StifterHaus

Individual evidence

1. ^ Honorary doctorates from the University of Salzburg
2. ↑ Anna Mitgutsch receives the Adalbert Stifter Prize from the Province of Upper Austria . State correspondence No. 204 of October 22, 2019, accessed on November 25, 2019.