Anna Weidenholzer

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Anna Weidenholzer
Leipziger Buchmesse 2013 Anna Weidenholzer.JPG
At the Leipziger bookfair 2013
Born1984 (age 4142)
LanguageGerman
NationalityAustrian
GenreJournalism,

Anna Weidenholzer (born 21 January 1984 in Linz, Austria) [1] is an Austrian journalist and writer.

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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 has been a freelance writer since 2010. 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. [2]

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Works

References

  1. "AutorInnen Detail - Stifterhaus". www.stifterhaus.at. Retrieved 22 June 2024.
  2. "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.
  3. STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H. "Anna Weidenholzer bekommt Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis – Literaturpreise – derStandard.at › Kultur". derstandard.at. Retrieved 2 November 2015.
External videos
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg FNL 2015: A Literary Brunch Part 1: Introduction & Anna Weidenholzer, 31 March 2015, Deutsches Haus at NYU
Nuvola apps kaboodle.svg Videolesung von Anna Weidenholzer im Residenz Verlag