Susanne Gregor

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Susanne Gregor (2019)

Susanne Gregor (born April 24, 1981 in Žilina ) is an Austrian writer of Slovak origin.

Life

Susanne Gregor, née Gregorova, moved with her family to Wartberg an der Krems in Upper Austria in 1990 . She attended grammar school in Kirchdorf an der Krems , later she studied German and journalism at the University of Salzburg . With the help of a Fulbright Scholarship , she taught German as a Foreign Language at the University of New Orleans . She has lived in Vienna since 2005, and in 2011 her first novel No Own Place was published .

Susanne Gregor had great success in 2019 with the novel "The Last Red Year". From the perspective of a 14-year-old girl named Misa, the historic year 1989 - the "last red year" - is described in the Slovak industrial city of Žilina . In a review for ORF, the critic Cornelius Hell praised the novel's "wonderful composition": "Susanne Gregor is a narrator of great stature who ... is able to create a harmonious constellation of figures down to the last nuances. Above all, however, she has a language that gives even the most banal everyday scenes a specific shine. "

Works

  • No place of its own , Roman, Edition Exil, 2011
  • Territories , novel, Droschl literature publisher, 2015
  • Unter Wasser , Erzählungen, Literaturverlag Droschl, 2018
  • The last red year , Roman, Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, 2019

Awards

  • 2009: Promotion Prize of the "Hohenems Literature Prize"
  • 2010: 1st prize “Exile Literature Prize”, writing between cultures
  • 2016: Austrian State Scholarship

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Brief vita ( Memento of the original from November 24, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the literature portal www.lyrikwelt.de, accessed on November 24, 2011 @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.lyrikwelt.de
  2. ^ Hohenems Literature Prize 2009: The winners have been selected , article on the city of Hohenems website, accessed on November 24, 2011
  3. ↑ Exil-Literaturpreis 2010 goes to Susanne Gregor , article on derStandard.at from November 15, 2010; Retrieved November 24, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Gregor, Susanne
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer
DATE OF BIRTH April 24, 1981
PLACE OF BIRTH Žilina