Peter Pessl

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Peter Pessl (born March 1, 1963 in Frankfurt am Main ) grew up in Austria and is a freelance writer and radio artist.

The author in the Literaturhaus Graz (2004)

Life

Peter Pessl made his debut in Graz in 1984 at Gangan Verlag with “Splitter und Sporen”, a narrow wine-red volume of poetry, which he prefixed with a sentence by Antonin Artaud : “Poetry is crushed, flaming multiplicity.” At that time he was one of the young authors of the literary magazine Perspektive who gathered around Petra Ganglbauer and was in lively correspondence with Friederike Mayröcker and other poets of the Viennese avant-garde .

In the late 1980s he withdrew with Petra Ganglbauer to a winery in southern Styria and wrote stories that were mainly published by the Droschl and Ritter publishers, as well as numerous radio plays for ORF Kunstradio since 1991 . For the Himalayan Notes , his most recent four books, he traveled to the Himalayan regions of India, Tibet and Nepal. In 2012 the last one will appear with the working title The Temple of Lu . He is a member of the Graz Authors' Assembly and now lives in Vienna and southern Burgenland .

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Books

  • Splinters and spurs , poems. Gangan Verlag, Graz 1984
  • My ear all the world , poems. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 1987
  • But that's not the silence , prose. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 1989
  • Rain in the Face, Last Tales of Cruelty , Stories. Literaturverlag Droschl, Graz 1992
  • Blumarine, Final Tales of the Revolution , Stories. Verlag Ritter, Klagenfurt 1998
  • Do forgive me , narration. Edition The happy living room , Vienna 2002
  • The letter with the inscription, Ein Kriminal , Erzählung (with drawings by Ilse Kilic ). Edition The Happy Living Room, Vienna 2005
  • The Dakini dialogues. Records from the Himalayas . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2006
  • Aquamarine, Final Tales of the Revolution , translated by Mark Kanak. Twisted Spoon Press, Prague 2008
  • The white year. Records from the Himalayas, Part 2 . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2009
  • Formed from air, records from the Himalayas, part 3 . Ritter Verlag, Klagenfurt 2010

Radio plays

  • Nine radio plays for ORF , most recently The Demon by Pin , 2008

Prices

  • Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz
  • Literature grant from the Styrian state government
  • Young scholarship for literature from the BKA art section
  • Rome scholarships from the BKA Art Section 1995, 1999
  • State scholarship for literature from the BKA Art Section 1993
  • Work grant from the LVG anniversary fund 1995
  • Dramatist grant of the BKA Art Section 1999
  • Work grant from the City of Vienna 2000
  • Vienna Authors' Grant 2010

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personal data
SURNAME Pessl, Peter
BRIEF DESCRIPTION freelance writer and radio artist
DATE OF BIRTH March 1, 1963
PLACE OF BIRTH Frankfurt am Main