Dine Petrik

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Dine Petrik (2018)

Dine Petrik (born September 3, 1942 in Unterfrauenhaid in Burgenland ) is an Austrian writer. At the age of 17 she left her hometown Unterfrauenhaid. Since then she has lived in Vienna . Petrik has two grown children.

Life

Dine Petrik, born in central Burgenland in 1942, is the daughter of a musician. In 1945, almost three years old, she lost her father and an older brother (World War II). She had a tough childhood. At the age of seventeen she moved to Vienna. Various bread-and-butter jobs, from office apprentices to secretaries. She completed the commercial school in evening classes as well as the Vienna art school. She has been working as a freelance writer since the late 1980s and has received several awards and grants. Publications in various publishers: poetry, essays, stories, travel literature and non-fiction. Recently published: "Biblio theca Alexandrina. On the way on the wonder of the world", Verlag Sonderzahl, Vienna; "Selected Poems", Podium Portrait, Vol. 32, Vienna, 2007; "Everything is in me" (anthology): biography about the writer Hertha Kräftner , Art & Science, Vienna, 2007 "wortreich.verschwiegen", poetry, m. Photos: G. Zugmann, Literature Edition Lower Austria, 2009 "The Missed Reality", 2011, biography of the post-war author Hertha Kräftner, ArtScience, Vienna-St.Wolfgang. Memberships: GAV: Graz authors. Literature circle podium. Austrian Writers' Association.

Prizes and awards

  • 1992 Acknowledgment Prize from the Province of Lower Austria
  • 1992 work grant, BMfWK, Vienna
  • 1997 Award of the Theodor Kery Foundation, Burgenland
  • 1997 BEWAG Lyrik Prize (2nd place), Burgenland
  • 1997 Austrian Book Prize
  • 1998 Theodor Körner Prize , (science), Vienna
  • 1999 working grant, arts section, Vienna
  • 2003 travel grant, KS., Vienna
  • 2006 Hermes Literature Prize, 1st place
  • 2008 FAST forWORT poetry award, 2nd place

Works (selection)

  • Sonatas for water and wind , debut with a volume of poetry, Edition Rötzer, 1990.
  • The hills after the flood. What really happened to Hertha K.? , Otto Müller, 1997.
  • Questioning of Zorns , Gedichte, Otto Müller, 1999. Selected Poems, Podium P.32, 2007.
  • Beyond Anatolia. A trip to the Eastern Roman Empire , Promedia 2002.
  • Bibliotheca Alexandrina. On the way on the wonder of the world , special number, 2005.
  • I wasn't always like that, biographer. Work on Hertha Kräftner: "Everything is in me, 2007.
  • wortreich.verschwiegen , poems, literature edition Lower Austria, 2009.
  • The Missed Reality , biography about Hertha Kräftner, ArtScience, 2011.
  • Escape from the Night , Roman, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz, 2015, ISBN 978-3-99028-367-7 .
  • Sparks , lawsuits , poems, publ . Library d. Province, 2016, ISBN 978-3-99028-542-8 .
  • Steel roses for the night , stanzas of a novel, Verl. Bibliothek d. Province, 2018, ISBN 978-3-99028-733-0 .
  • Treatises of the Wind. Lament, noise, flight , poems, Verlag Bibliothek der Provinz , 2019, ISBN 978-3-99028-829-0 .

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personal data
SURNAME Petrik, Dine
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH September 3, 1942
PLACE OF BIRTH Unterfrauenhaid , Burgenland