1. Heinrich Harrer (1912)

Austrian Writer

Famous for his nonfiction works The White Spider and Seven Years in Tibet, this Austrian writer and adventurer is also remembered for being a member of the first climbing team...

2. Christine Lavant (1915)

Austrian Writer

Austrian poet, author, and 1970 recipient of the Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature. She is remembered for her lyric poetry and for a novella entitled Das Kind.

3. Erich Fried (1921)

Austrian Writer

Austrian-English poet, translator, and author known for his political and love poetry. His literary works include A Soldier and A Girl, Warning Poems, and It Is What it Is.

4. Thomas Brezina (1963)

Austrian Writer

Best known for his Tom Turbo stories and his The Knickerbocker Gang series, this popular Austrian children's author published more than five hundred books and had his work translated into...

5. Anna Gmeyner (1902)

Austrian Writer

Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner was an exiled German and Austrian author playwright and scriptwriter who is now best known for her novel Manja. She also wrote under the names Anna Reiner...

6. Annemarie Selinko (1914)

Austrian Writer

Annemarie Selinko was an Austrian novelist who wrote a number of best-selling books in German from the 1930s through the 1950s. Although she had been based in Germany in 1939...

7. Friederike Mayröcker (1924)

Austrian Writer

Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.

8. Lotte Ingrisch (1930)

Austrian Writer

Lotte Ingrisch birthname Charlotte Gruber daughter of Emma and Karl Gruber is a well known Austrian author and playwright. From 1949 to 1965 the author was married to the Austrian...

9. Cornelia Travnicek (1987)

Austrian Writer

Cornelia Travnicek is an Austrian writer who has published several books and stories.

10. Barbara Frischmuth (1941)

Austrian Writer

Barbara Frischmuth is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose. She is a member of the Grazer Gruppe along with Peter Handke.

11. Gerhard Roth (1942)

Austrian Writer

Gerhard Roth is an Austrian writer.

12. Bodo Hell (1943)

Austrian Writer

Bodo Hell is an Austrian writer. He studied the organ with the Mozarteum Salzburg and in Vienna he studied Film and Television Philosophy German Studies and History. He lives in...

13. Gustav Ernst (1944)

Austrian Writer

Gustav Ernst is an Austrian playwright novelist and screenwriter. He has also founded and edited two literary journals Wespennest and kolik. Ernst was born in Vienna where he read Philosophy...

14. George Zebrowski (1945)

Austrian Writer

George Zebrowski is a science fiction author and editor who has written and edited a number of books and is a former editor of The Bulletin of the Science Fiction...

15. Josef Winkler (writer) (1953)

Austrian Writer

Josef Winkler is an Austrian writer.

16. Lilian Faschinger (Unknow)

Austrian Writer

Lilian Faschinger is an Austrian novelist short story writer poet and literary translator. Faschinger studied literature history and English at the University of Graz earning a doctorate in English literature....

17. Erich Hackl (1954)

Austrian Writer

Erich Hackl is an Austrian novelist and short-story writer. His works have been translated into English Spanish French and Czech though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world....

18. Christoph Ransmayr (1954)

Austrian Writer

Christoph Ransmayr is an Austrian writer.

19. Michael Wachtler (1959)

Austrian Writer

Michael Wachtler is an author and researcher from South-Tyrol.

20. Robert Menasse (1954)

Austrian Writer

Robert Menasse is an Austrian writer. As an undergraduate Menasse studied German studies philosophy and political science in Vienna Salzburg and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesis Der...

21. Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn (1852)

Austrian Writer

Adam Müller-Guttenbrunn was an Austrian author.

22. Wolfgang Ratz (1959)

Austrian Writer

gang Ratz is an Austrian writer and singer-songwriter.

23. Christian Mähr (Unknow)

Austrian Writer

Christian Mähr is an Austrian chemist and science fiction writer. His novel Fatous Staub concerns parallel worlds computers and the mathematical work of Pierre Fatou. It won the Deutscher Science...

24. Andreas P. Pittler (1964)

Austrian Writer

Andreas P. Pittler in Vienna is an Austrian writer. After his school years Pittler studied history and political science in Vienna and received an M. A. and a Ph. D....

25. Klaus Ebner (1964)

Austrian Writer

Klaus Ebner is an Austrian writer essayist poet and translator. Born and raised in Vienna he began writing at an early age. He started submitting stories to magazines in the...

26. Josef Haslinger (1955)

Austrian Writer

Josef Haslinger is an Austrian writer. Haslinger was born in Zwettl Lower Austria. He studied philosophy drama and Germanic studies. He received his PhD in 1980. In 1995 he was...

27. Arno Geiger (1968)

Austrian Writer

Arno Geiger is an Austrian novelist. Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck...

28. Georg Bydlinski (1956)

Austrian Writer

Georg Bydlinski is an Austrian writer.

29. Herbert Gantschacher (1956)

Austrian Writer

Herbert Gantschacher is an Austrian director and producer and writer.

30. Peter Waterhouse (writer) (1956)

Austrian Writer

Peter Waterhouse is an Austrian writer and translator. Born in Berlin of a British father and an Austrian mother he studied German and English literature at the University of Vienna...

31. Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer (1878)

Austrian Writer

Erwin Guido Kolbenheyer was an Austrian novelist poet and playwright. Later based in Germany he belonged to a group of writers that included the likes of Hans Grimm Rudolf G....

32. Kurt Landau (Unknow)

Austrian Writer

Kurt Landau was an Austrian communist member of the International Left Opposition author and Trotskyist. He was murdered by agents of Stalin's NKVD during the Spanish Civil War.

33. Daniel Glattauer (1960)

Austrian Writer

Daniel Glattauer is an Austrian writer and journalist. He was born in Vienna where he still lives and works. He is a regular columnist for Der Standard. He is best...

34. Götz Spielmann (1961)

Austrian Writer

Götz Spielmann is an Austrian director and scriptwriter.

35. Maja Haderlap (1961)

Austrian Writer

Maja Haderlap Carinthia) is a bi-lingual Slovenian-German Austrian writer best known for her award-winning novel Angel of Forgetting highlighting the Austria's only militarily organized resistance against National Socialism - the...

36. Doron Rabinovici (1961)

Austrian Writer

Doron Rabinovici is an Israeli-Austrian writer historian and essayist. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1961 and moved to Vienna in 1964.

37. Erwin Riess (1957)

Austrian Writer

Erwin Riess is a disabled playwright and dramatist was born in Vienna Austria. He attended school in Krems Austria and later returned to Vienna to study policy and theatre science....

38. Wolfgang Kauer (1957)

Austrian Writer

gang Kauer is an Austrian author living in Salzburg. He writes novels short stories audio plays and poems in German.

39. Eva Menasse (1970)

Austrian Writer

Eva Menasse is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in...

40. Felix Braun (1885)

Austrian Writer

x Braun was an Austrian writer.

41. Robert Bodanzky (1879)

Austrian Writer

Robert Bodanzky also known as Danton was an Austrian journalist playwright poet and artist. While he became famous for his apolitical poems before the first World War he turned an...

42. Seligmann Heller (1831)

Austrian Writer

Seligmann Heller was an Austrian poet and journalist; born at Raudnitz Bohemia July 8 1831; died in Vienna January 8 1890. After completing his course at the University of Vienna...

43. Nikolaus Lenau (1802)

Austrian Writer

Nikolaus Lenau was the nom de plume of Nikolaus Franz Niembsch Edler von Strehlenau a German-language Austrian poet.

44. Richard Beer-Hofmann (1866)

Austrian Writer

Richard Beer-Hofmann was an Austrian dramatist and poet. After the early death of his mother Beer-Hofmann was raised by his aunt's family in Brno and Vienna. In the 1880s he...

45. Ignaz Franz Castelli (1780)

Austrian Writer

Ignaz Franz Castelli was an Austrian dramatist born in Vienna. He studied law at the university and then entered the government service. During the Napoleonic invasions his patriotism inspired him...

46. Robert Hamerling (1830)

Austrian Writer

Robert Hamerling was an Austrian poet.

47. Adalbert Stifter (1805)

Austrian Writer

Adalbert Stifter was an Austrian writer poet painter and pedagogue. He was especially notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the...

48. Alice Gurschner (1869)

Austrian Writer

Alice Gurschner was an Austrian writer. She wrote largely under the masculine pen name Paul Althof.

49. Gert Jonke (1946)

Austrian Writer

Gert Jonke was an Austrian poet playwright and novelist.

50. Josef Emanuel Hilscher (1806)

Austrian Writer

Josef Emanuel Hilscher was an Austrian soldier poet and translator of other's poetry. He became a soldier and rose to quartermaster but he is remembered for his own exuberant poems...