Anna Weidenholzer

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

Anna Weidenholzer
At the Leipziger bookfair 2013
Born1984 (age 36–37)
Linz
LanguageGerman
NationalityAustrian
GenreJournalism,

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 has been a freelance writer. In 2012 she was writer in residence at Kitzbuhel.

Her first book Der Platz des Hundes (2010) was nominated for the European debut novel festival in Kiel. In 2013, her book Der Winter tut den Fischen gut was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, and 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 video
FNL 2015: A Literary Brunch Part 1: Introduction & Anna Weidenholzer, 31 March 2015, Deutsches Haus at NYU
Videolesung von Anna Weidenholzer im Residenz Verlag
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