Eva Menasse

Eva Menasse
Eva Menasse bei der Verleihung der Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille an Robert Menasse im Staatstheater Mainz
Born	11 May 1970  Vienna
Alma mater	University of Vienna
Occupation	Writer, journalist
Spouse(s)	Michael Kumpfmüller
Parent(s)	Hans Menasse
Family	Robert Menasse
Awards	Heinrich-Böll-Preis (2013) Austrian book prize (2017) Mainzer Stadtschreiber (2019) Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis (2017) Jonathan Swift Award (2015) Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis (2023)

Eva Menasse (born May 11, 1970 in Vienna) 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 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.

Menasse was married to the German author Michael Kumpfmüller from 2004–2017.

Awards

• 2013 Heinrich-Böll-Preis
• 2019 Ludwig-Börne-Prize

Works

• Die letzte Märchenprinzessin, (with Elisabeth and Robert Menasse), 1997
• Klein Menasses der mächtigste Mann, (with Elisabeth and Robert Menasse), 1998
• Der Holocaust vor Gericht. Der Prozess um David Irving, 2000
• Vienna, 2005
• Lässliche Todsünden, 2009

References

• "Goethe Institute - Eva Menasse's novel Vienna". Retrieved 2002-03-13.

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