Anna Weidenholzer

Anna Weidenholzer Leipzig Book Fair 2013

Anna Weidenholzer (* 1984 in Linz ) is an Austrian writer .

life and work

Weidenholzer studied comparative literature in Vienna and Wroclaw and completed her studies with a thesis on intercultural literature from Bosnia-Herzegovina . She worked as a chronicle journalist for the Upper Austrian News and has been a freelance writer since 2010. In 2012 she was the town clerk of Kitzbühel .

With her first book Der Platz des Hundes (2010) she was nominated for the European Festival of the Debut Novel in Kiel in 2011 . Her novel Winter is good for the fish was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize in 2013. In 2013 she received the Reinhard Priessnitz Prize . In 2016, her novel Why men wear starfish was on the long list of the German Book Prize .

She has lived in Vienna since 2003. Her father is the former president of Volkshilfe Österreich and a member of the European Parliament Josef Weidenholzer .

Awards

• 2009 Alfred Gesswein Literature Prize
• 2011 residency scholarship at Schloss Wiepersdorf
• 2011/12 state scholarship for literature
• 2012 residency at the Berlin Literary Colloquium
• 2012 Kitzbühel town clerk
• 2013 Reinhard Priessnitz Prize
• 2017 Outstanding Artist Award for Literature

Works

• The Dog's Place (Stories, 2010) ( ISBN 978-3-9502828-0-1 )
• Winter is good for the fish (novel, 2012) ( ISBN 978-3-7017-1583-1 )
• Why men wear starfish (Roman, 2016) ( ISBN 978-3-9575-7323-0 ); Matthes & Seitz publishing house, Berlin.
• Find a Swan a Boat (Novel, 2019) ( ISBN 978-3-95757-768-9 ); Matthes & Seitz publishing house, Berlin.

Web links

• Literature by and about Anna Weidenholzer in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography and reviews of works by Anna Weidenholzer at perlentaucher.de
• Homepage of Anna Weidenholzer
• Video reading by Anna Weidenholzer at Residenz Verlag
• "As a child I would have loved to have been a horse.", Feature about Anna Weidenholzer by Eva Schobel, Oe1 Radio September 30, 2013
• Entry on Anna Weidenholzer by Harald Klauhs for the Upper Austrian literary history of the StifterHaus

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Anna Weidenholzer from Upper Austria, nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, in an interview "Nobody believes that" , Wiener Zeitung, March 8, 2013
2. ↑ Litport, Anna Weidenholzer
3. ↑ Longlist 2016 on the website of the German Book Prize. Retrieved April 11, 2019 . 
4. ^ Volkshilfe boss Josef Weidenholzer: Surprise demo in Goisern for the 60s . Article dated March 7, 2010, accessed December 8, 2016.
5. ↑ derstandard.at of June 12, 2013
6. ↑ orf.at: State Prize for European Literature to Karl Ove Knausgard . Article dated April 23, 2017, accessed April 23, 2017.