Erwin Einzinger
Erwin Einzinger (born May 13, 1953 in Kirchdorf an der Krems ) is an Austrian writer and translator.
life and work
After attending school in Linz , Upper Austria , he studied English and German in Salzburg and lives as a writer and translator in Micheldorf.
In 1977, the poetry collection Lammzungen was wrapped in cellophane and in 1983 the prose volume The horror over the silence in which reality continued . This was followed by the publication of poems, novels and translations by American authors, including John Ashbery , William Carpenter , Robert Creeley and James Schuyler . As an author, he received the Rauris Literature Prize in 1984 , the Mondseer Poetry Prize in 2008 and the HC Artmann Prize in 2010 .
Book publications
Own works
- Lamb tongues wrapped in cellophane. Poems (1977, Alfred Winter Verlag)
- The horror of the silence in which reality carried on. Seventy-one Life (1983, Residenz Verlag )
- Headdress for Mansfield. Roman (1985, Residenz Verlag)
- Animals, clouds, vengeance. Poems (1986, Residenz Verlag)
- The ideal and life (1988, Residenz Verlag)
- Blue pictures about love (1992, Residenz Verlag)
- Small nod in the direction in which the knife is now pointing. Poems (1994, Residenz Verlag)
- The wild bread (1995, Residenz Verlag)
- From the history of popular music. Roman (2005, Residenz Verlag)
- Dogs at the window. Poems (2008, young and young)
- A knife from Odessa. Poems (2009, young and young)
- From Jalalabad to Bad Schallerbach. Novel (2010, young and young)
- The virtual trout. Poems (2011, young and young)
- Barefoot to the cinema. Poems (2013, young and young)
- A Kyrgyz western. Roman (2015, young and young)
- (together with Hans Eichhorn) Autumn Sonata (2016, Edition Sommerfrische)
- The wild boar. Arabesques (2018, young and young)
Translations
- Robert Creeley , Mabel. A story (Residenz Verlag, 1989)
- Robert Creeley, autobiography (Residenz Verlag, 1993)
- William Carpenter, Regen , Poems (Residenz Verlag, 1990)
- William Carpenter, A Keeper of the Herd , novel (Residenz Verlag, 1993)
- William Carpenter, Mit Feuerzungen , Poems (Residenz Verlag, 1995)
- John Ashbery / James Schuyler, A Bunch of Idiots , novel (Residenz Verlag, 1990)
- James Schuyler, Hymn to Life , Poems (Residenz Verlag, 1991)
- John Ashbery, Hotel Lautréamont , poems (Residenz Verlag, 1995)
- John Ashbery, And the Stars Flashed , Poems (Residenz Verlag, 1997)
- Ed Sanders , The Summer of Love. Tales of Beatnik Glory (Hannibal Verlagsgruppe Koch, 2002)
Web links
- Literature by and about Erwin Einzinger in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author's website
- Short biography and reviews of works by Erwin Einzinger at perlentaucher.de
- Erwin Einzinger in the collection of articles in the Innsbruck newspaper archive
- Austria Lexicon: Einzinger, Erwin
- Erwin Einzinger in an interview: "Are those poems at all?" , Der Standard , June 9, 2008, accessed July 18, 2012
Individual references, sources
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Einzelinger, Erwin |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian writer, translator |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 13, 1953 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Kirchdorf an der Krems |