Isabella Straub (author)
Isabella Straub (* 1968 in Vienna ) is an Austrian author .
Life
Isabella Straub grew up in Vienna, where she attended the Lycée Français de Vienne . After graduating from high school , she studied German and philosophy in Vienna and at the University of Klagenfurt , where she finished her studies in 1993 with a thesis on the subject of The gap between language and the world has become insurmountable. Günther Anders and the language of the last age as a Magistra .
Straub lives and works in Klagenfurt am Wörthersee , initially working as a journalist and later as an advertising copywriter with her own agency. In 2008/09 she graduated from the Leondingen Academy for Literature . With her short story Lord Jesus Jumps she won first place at the 2011 FM4 -Kurzgeschichtenwettbewerb wording . In 2013 she published her debut novel Südbalkon , which was one of the five finalists of the Franz Tumler Literature Prize . With her second novel Das Fest des Windrads she was invited to the literature festival O-Töne in 2015 . In 2017 she was a finalist at the Wartholz Literature Prize , and her third novel Wer hier slept was published .
Publications (selection)
- 2013: Ballet with Beast , short story, Probsthayn-Verlag, Hamburg 2013, ISBN 978-3-942212-89-2
- 2013: Südbalkon , Roman, Blumenbar-Verlag, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-351-05002-3
- 2015: The Wind Turbine Festival , Roman, Blumenbar-Verlag, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-351-05017-7
- 2017: Who slept here , Roman, Blumenbar-Verlag, Berlin 2017, ISBN 978-3-351-05042-9
Awards, nominations and grants
- 2019: Awarded the audience award of the AK Literature Prize of the Upper Austrian Chamber of Labor for the second best thing that ever happened to me
- 2018: Walter Serner Prize for Siberia
- 2017: Finalist 10th Wartholz Literature Prize
- 2016: Working grant from the German Literature Fund
- 2015: Working grant from the Austrian Federal Chancellery of Art | Culture
- 2014: Project grant for literature 2014/2015 | BMUKK
- 2013: Author award of the BMUKK "for a particularly successful debut"
- 2013: Election for the "Debut of the Erfurt Autumn Harvest"
- 2013: Nominated for the sponsorship award / Bremen literature award
- 2013: Finalist international Franz Tumler Prize for debut novels
- 2011: Winner wording
- 2011: Winner of the 11th Munich short story competition (jury and audience award)
- 2009: Special award at the 1st Werner Bräunig Literature Prize, Leipzig
Web links
- Short biography and reviews of works by Isabella Straub at perlentaucher.de
- Short biography on the website of the Literaturhaus Wien
- Official website
Individual evidence
- ↑ Short biography and reviews of works by Isabella Straub at perlentaucher.de
- ↑ a b Isabella Straub: Leben ( Memento from September 27, 2017 in the Internet Archive ). Retrieved September 27, 2017.
- ↑ Union catalog: Diploma thesis University of Klagenfurt 1993 . Retrieved September 27, 2017.
- ↑ FM4: Came to writing like breathing . Article dated September 22, 2011, accessed September 27, 2017.
- ^ Franz Tumler Literature Prize: Archive . Retrieved September 27, 2017.
- ^ Literaturhaus Wien: Isabella Straub . Retrieved September 27, 2017.
- ↑ Karin Seyringer: Grand Finale of the AK Literature Prize 2019: Award ceremony on October 4th in Linz. In: tips.at. September 29, 2019. Retrieved September 29, 2019 .
- ^ Literature prizes: Marie Luise Lehner, Isabella Straub and Joachim Meyerhoff awarded. In: Small newspaper . October 7, 2019, accessed October 7, 2019 .
- ^ German Literature Fund, supported authors
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Straub, Isabella |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Austrian author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1968 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Vienna |