New Literature from Austria
Incentives - New Literature from Austria
readme.cc provides multilingual access to the latest Austrian literature. In collaboration with the Literaturhaus in Vienna the reading forum offers the latest insights about literature published in Austria.
Literary journalists and researchers introduce current new publications; reading samples allow for a closer look at the texts; short portraits of the authors complement the picture.
The range of information is currently available in five languages: German, English, French, Czech and Hungarian.
The Project "Incentives" targets at the internationalization of Austrian literature, respectively the translation of current texts.
Project realization: the Office of Documentation of Contemporary Austrian Literature (reviews, author’s portraits) – The Association of Translators (translations) – readme.cc (infrastructure).
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Kopf aus den Wolken Cerha, Ruth
“Traveling means going away, Majana said, but upon our arrival in New York, on a street corner in Midtown Manhattan, I saw something else in her eyes and it made me afraid. Traveling also means ...
Populäre Panoramen I Falkner, Brigitta
In "Populäre Panoramen I" (Popular Panoramas I) Brigitta Falkner offers as an author the twofold pleasure of reading and looking. Each double page is, as it were, a diptych of text and ...
Die ganze Wahrheit Gstrein, Norbert
'Truth is something relative. And the whole truth all the more so. There are any number of versions of it. Some of them are protected by lawyers, others by priests.' Norbert Gstrein’s latest ...
Hanna und ich Winkler, Andrea
"You know what the worst of all bug-eyed things is: letters packed in boxes, lying lie there on the bottom shelf, simply the fact that they don’t just vanish into thin air." Andrea Winkler ...
(Krieg und Welt) Waterhouse, Peter
Childhood in Malaysia, adolescence in Germany during the period of the Cold War. His father, a British secret agent, is at home in many languages, yet relates nothing in any of them. He ...
An den Mond Schutting, Julian
“Yes, well… what our kind, when poet- / icising away, understands by poems –“br /> In the thin volume An den Mond (‘To the Moon’), Julian Schutting collects together “nature ...
Don Juan de la Mancha oder Die Erziehung der Lust Menasse, Robert
Don Juan is over the hill. All that he can now manage to do is look back at his life. Nathan has no desire anymore. And for the always groaning Viennese newspaper editor that is anything but a ...
Neid Jelinek, Elfriede
"Neid" is the title of the new novel by Nobel Prize winner Elfriede Jelinek. It is a “private novel”, which can only be read on the author’s homepage, and therefore does not participate in ...
Das Alphabet der Zeit Roth, Gerhard
Having grown up between the railway shunting yard and the rubbish tips on the edge of the city of Graz, Gerhard Roth tells the story of his childhood and youth, spent during the hardship and ...
Nkaah Stavarič, Michael
To make childhood the sole topic of a text is a hazardous undertaking. Michael Stavarič does it in his latest book – and the text is surprising, though it is hardly surprising that it is more ...
Kreuzungen Streeruwitz, Marlene
With Crossings , Marlene Streeruwitz has created an anti-modern decadent novel while continuing to follow her now familiar leitmotifs – money, hopelessness, other worlds – in her usual ...
Mariaschwarz Steinfest, Heinrich
Heinrich Steinfest, born in 1961, is regarded as a ‘typical’ representative of the Austrian thriller. The plots of his crime novels do not generally follow the laws of logic, his characters ...
Ihr Mann und der Fremde Rumpl, Manfred
Manfred Rumpl’s novel is not literary pornography, even though it has been advertised as such by the publishers. It is a tightrope walk between explicit, partly sado-masochist scenes, and this ...
Der lange Gang über die Stationen Kaiser-Mühlecker, Reinhard
Reinhard Kaiser-Mühlecker’s first novel Der lange Gang über die Stationen (The Long Walk From Station to Station) takes place in the Salzkammergut Area in upper Austria in the 1950s. The ...
Der Nachzügler Millesi, Hanno
The main character in Hanno Millesi’s new book Der Nachzügler (‘The Straggler’) is an avantgarde author. “I am an experimental writer. Society has thought up this slightly ...
Herr Faustini und der Mann im Hund Hermann, Wolfgang
To Illuminate the World with a Laugh A lemon tree would bring new life into the house, says Mr Faustini and promises: as soon as it gets warmer you can go out on the terrace. After all, ...
Die gefrorene Zeit Kim, Anna
Anna Kim’s second novel pulls us into the barbarian ways of the War in Yugoslawia. Luan Alushi, an Albanian from the Kosovo, is looking for his wife, Fahrie, who has been missing since the ...
