Cornelia Travnicek

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Cornelia Travnicek (2008)

Cornelia Travnicek (born January 22, 1987 in St. Pölten ) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Since her school days, Cornelia Travnicek has appeared in various literary competitions as well as through publications in literary magazines and anthologies. In January 2008 her prose debut “Aurora Borealis” was published, the short story “The Ashes of My Sister” followed half a year later. She studied Sinology and Computer Science at the University of Vienna . In spring 2008 she was awarded the Theodor Körner Prize for her work on her third book . At the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition in 2012 she won the audience award. In addition to her writing activities, she works part-time as a researcher in a center for virtual reality and visualization in Vienna .

Her novel Chucks was in 2015 by Sabine Hiebler and Gerhard Ertl with Anna Posch as Mae filmed , the author has in two Cameoauftritte . The film won the Audience Award at the Montreal World Film Festival 2015.

Her third novel, Feenstaub, is based on the story of Peter Pan in a magical and poetic way and interweaves real events. Three boys fall into the clutches of a child trafficker who mistreats them and exploits them as pickpockets. Fairy dust is used to disappear in the city, so to get from no man's land to the other bank of the river, taken as a drug it means that you can fly with it. Finally, Petru / Pierre actually flies back in the plane from where he came from, by deportation flight, is interpreted.

Works

Film adaptations

Editor

  • How I fucked Jamal , Milena (2010) (together with Mieze Medusa )

Awards

Web links

Individual references, sources

  1. a b Travnicek's novel "Chucks" Late happiness and early suffering , review by Karl-Markus Gauss in the NZZ on July 11, 2012, accessed on July 19, 2012
  2. Cornelia Travnicek's own website , accessed on November 1, 2015
  3. orf.at - "Chucks" goes film . Article dated September 25, 2015, accessed September 11, 2016.
  4. Cornelia Travnicek's poetic “Feenstaub” orf.at, April 7, 2020, accessed April 7, 2020.
  5. “Aurora Borealis” , review, literaturhaus.at, May 29, 2008, accessed August 6, 2014
  6. Die Zeit dpa Newsticker Literature from July 31, 2013: Kranichsteiner Literature Prize for Marica Bodrožić ( Memento of the original from March 26, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. , accessed July 31, 2013 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.zeit.de
  7. The State of Lower Austria: 2012 Culture Prize Winners , accessed on March 26, 2014