Eva Men*e (born 11 May 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Men*e had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna, and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.

In 2005, she received the Corine Literature Prize. The English translation of her novel Vienna was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK.

Men*e was married to the German author Michael *pfmüller from 2004–2017.

Contents

• 1 Awards
• 2 Works
• 3 References
  • 3.1 Sources
• 4 Further reading

Awards

• 2013 Heinrich-Böll-Preis
• 2015 Villa M*imo Scholarship in Rome
• 2015 Jonathan-Swift-Preis
• 2017 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis
• 2017 Österreichischer Buchpreis
• 2019 Ludwig-Börne-Prize
• 2019 Mainzer Stadtschreiber

Works

• Die letzte Märchenprinzessin, (with Elisabeth and Robert Men*e), 1997
• Klein Men*es der mächtigste Mann, (with Elisabeth and Robert Men*e), 1998
• Der Holocaust vor Gericht. Der Prozess um David Irving, 2000
• Vienna, novel, 2005 (English: Vienna, translated by Anthea Bell, 2006)
• Lässliche Todsünden, short stories, 2009
• Quasikristalle, novel, 2013
• Lieber aufgeregt als abgeklärt, essays, 2015
• Tiere für Fortgeschrittene, short stories, 2017
• Gedankenspiele über den Kompromiss, essay, 2020
• Geborgen am Busen der Musen. Früher oder später bekommt das Museum uns alle, essay, 2020
• Dunkelblum, novel, 2021

References

Sources

• "Goethe Ins*ute – Eva Men*e's novel Vienna". Retrieved 13 March 2002.

Further reading

• El, Eugen (11 March 2021). "Eva Men*e im Gespräch". Jüdische Allgemeine (in German). Retrieved 18 July 2021.