Clementine Skorpil

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Clementine Skorpil (born December 19, 1964 in Graz ) is an Austrian writer.

Life

After finishing school in her hometown, Skorpil began to study Sinology and History at the University of Vienna . She completed the necessary semesters abroad in Taipei . Parallel to her studies, she began working as a translator for Chinese companies in Vienna at an early age. Her thesis, Long Sleep - Who Could Avoid It, deals with the motif of death in Chinese poetry of the 17th century.

After successfully completing her studies, Skorpil got a job as a publishing editor at the non-fiction book publisher Holzhausen; there she was u. a. responsible for public relations .

From 2001 Skorpil worked as a freelance editor and in 2004 took over the Lower Austria department in response to the magazine if-information for women . From 2008 she also took over an editorial position at the daily newspaper Die Presse . With her first crime novel , she also became a member of the Syndicate writers' association .

Clementine Skorpil is married and currently (2014) lives with her husband and two children in Neulengbach (Lower Austria).

Works (selection)

Essays
  • A beautiful corpse - artfully murder? Approaching the question “Are crime fiction art?” In: Secret Service. Yearbook of the Syndicate , Vol. 5 (2011), pp. 145–155.
stories
  • In the loop . In: Wolfgang Orians (Ed.): The form of time . Achter Verlag, Acht 2010, ISBN 978-3-9812372-3-8 , pp. 139–156.
  • Karl Marx buys cigarillos and goes out to eat with me . In: Kühner Kosmos. An anthology . Verlag Landbeck, Berlin 2011, ISBN 978-3-942874-00-7 , pp. 105-106.
  • Undead celebration. Bite at dawn . In: Edith Kneifl (Hrsg.): Tatort Friedhof. 13 crime stories from Vienna . Falter-Verlag, Vienna 2012, ISBN 978-3-85439-480-8 .
Novels
  • Fox spirits. A historical thriller . Addita-Verlag, Tawern 2007, ISBN 978-3-939481-07-2 .
  • The harmony in the dungeon of the Mandarin. Historical detective novel . Edition Hochfeld, Augsburg 2011, ISBN 978-3-9812820-9-2 .
  • Fallen blossoms (Ariadne crime novel; Vol. 1212). Argumente-Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-86754-212-8 .
  • Hollerstrasse 7 . edition taschenspiel, Verlag der Buchhandlung beim Augarten, Vienna 2015, ISBN 978-3-903088-01-6 .

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ This anthology brings together the winners of the “Kurzprosa” competition organized by the Schreibwerk berlin .

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Scorpio, Clementine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH December 19, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Graz