Eva Menasse

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Eva Menasse
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Eva Menasse bei der Verleihung der Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille an Robert Menasse im Staatstheater Mainz
Born11 May 1970  OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Vienna   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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Occupation Writer, journalist   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
Spouse(s) Michael Kumpfmüller   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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Family Robert Menasse   OOjs UI icon edit-ltr-progressive.svg
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Eva Menasse (born 11 May 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, [1] and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author. [1]

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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 to 2017. [2] She is the half-sibling of writer Robert Menasse. [3]

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  1. 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 "Eva Menasse". Kiepenheuer & Witsch (in German). 9 March 2017. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  2. 1 2 3 "Eva Menasse – Autorenlexikon". literaturport.de (in German). 24 August 2009. Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  3. "Eva Menasse". @GI_weltweit. Retrieved 9 April 2025.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Eva Menasse – 2020 › Department Germanistik und Komparatistik". Department Germanistik und Komparatistik Erlangen › Department Germanistik und Komparatistik (in German). Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  5. Paolo, Thomas Di. "Internationaler Literaturpreis für Satire und Humor". Jonathan Swift (in German). Retrieved 18 July 2021.
  6. "Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis für Eva Menasse". Deutschlandfunk Kultur (in German). 28 October 2022. Retrieved 28 October 2022.
  7. "Lieber aufgeregt als abgeklärt - Eva Menasse". Kiepenheuer & Witsch (in German). 9 February 2015. Retrieved 18 July 2021.

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