Graziella Hlawaty

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Graziella Hlawaty (born February 2, 1929 in Vienna ; † December 20, 2012 there ) was an Austrian writer.

Life

After her parents divorced, Graziella Hlawaty lived with her grandmother and great-grandmother in Trieste and from 1936 with a great aunt in Tulln , where she attended elementary school. From 1939 she attended a secondary school in Vienna with her mother and graduated in 1948. She worked in a publishing bookstore and also studied theater studies at the University of Vienna . In 1954 she broke off her studies and worked in Sweden as a dishwasher, taxi driver and restaurant cashier. In 1957 she rented a hut on an island in the outer Stockholm archipelago . Hlawaty was buried at the Südwestfriedhof (group 31, row 9, number 18) in Vienna.

Awards

Graziella Hlawaty burial place
  • 1976 and 1981 award of the Vienna Art Fund
  • 1978/1979 Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
  • 1984 Theodor Körner Prize
  • 1986 Bertelsmann Prize in the storytelling competition
  • 1987 Appreciation Prize from the Province of Lower Austria
  • 1991 Radio Play Prize from the Federal Ministry for Education and the Arts

Radio plays

  • The competition. Director: Max Geiger, ORF Lower Austria, 1980.
  • A cave tour. Director: Hans Krendlesberger , ORF Lower Austria, 1983.
  • Out there on the island. Director: Manfred Mixner , ORF, 1985.
  • The Vierwaldstätter Trio or Don't Forget the Whip. ORF, 1991.

Publications

  • Endpoint stories. Stories, Leykam Verlag, Graz 1977.
  • Bosch or the amazement of the hollow animals. Roman, Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1979.
  • Earth stories. Stories, Leykam Verlag, Graz 1981.
  • To experience the land, to fly into the air. Stories, Lower Austria Press House, St. Pölten 1990.
  • The border journey. Roman, Edition Atelier, Vienna 1990.
  • The city of songs. Roman, Paul Zsolnay, Vienna 1995.
  • Island years. Poems, Grasl Verlag, Bad Vöslau 1995.
  • North wind. Roman, Leykam Verlag, Graz 1996.
  • The Swedish boomerang. Stories, Edition Atelier, Vienna 1999.
  • For life and death. Stories, Provincial Library, Weitra 2003.
Translations
  • Gun-Britt Sundström: The other half. Roman, translation from Swedish with Graziella Hlawaty, Senta Kapoun, Zsolnay, Vienna 1978.
  • Maj Samzelius: Adventure in the starry sky. Youth book, translation from Swedish with Erika Bohata, Graziella Hlawaty, Herder, Vienna 1991.

Secondary literature

Hans Thöni, The question of meaning in the work of Graziella Hlawaty, dissertation University of Zurich, 1983

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Hlawaty, Graziella
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 2, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Vienna
DATE OF DEATH December 20, 2012
Place of death Vienna