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Anna Weidenholzer
At the Leipziger bookfair 2013
At the Leipziger bookfair 2013
Born1984 (age 39–40)
Linz
LanguageGerman
NationalityAustrian
GenreJournalism,

Anna Weidenholzer (born 1984) is an Austrian journalist and writer.

Life

Weidenholzer studied Comparative Literature in Vienna and Wrocław and graduated with a thesis on Bosnia and Herzegovina Intercultural Literature. She worked as a journalist for Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, and since 2010 is a freelance writer. In 2012 she was writer in residence at Kitzbuhel.

With her first book The Course of the Dog (2010) she was nominated for the debut novel European festival. In 2013, her book The Winter does the fishes good was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize. In 2013, she was awarded the Reinhard Priessnitz Prize.[1]

Awards

  • 2009 Alfred Gesswein Literaturpreis
  • 2011 Aufenthaltsstipendium Schloss Wiepersdorf
  • 2011/12 Staatsstipendium für Literatur
  • 2012 Aufenthaltsstipendium im Literarischen Colloquium Berlin
  • 2012 Kitzbüheler Stadtschreiberin
  • 2013 Reinhard Priessnitz Preis[2]

Works

  • Der Platz des Hundes (Erzählungen, 2010) (ISBN 978-3-9502828-0-1)
  • Der Winter tut den Fischen gut (Roman, 2012) (ISBN 978-3-7017-1583-1)

References

  1. ^ "Anna Weidenholzer | New Books in German, Der Winter tut den Fischen gut (Winter is Good for Fish), author, Rights". www.new-books-in-german.com. Archived from the original on 17 September 2015. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
  2. ^ STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. "Anna Weidenholzer bekommt Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis – Literaturpreise – derStandard.at › Kultur". derstandard.at. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
External videos
video icon FNL 2015: A Literary Brunch Part 1: Introduction & Anna Weidenholzer, 31 March 2015, Deutsches Haus at NYU
video icon Videolesung von Anna Weidenholzer im Residenz Verlag
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