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Sophie Anna Reyer is an Austrian author of multiple theater pieces and publications. She was born in the Alpine capitol of Vienna, Austria in 1984. Reyer discovered her various profound talents in the arts at a young age as a child prodigy, [1] honing her skills as a scriptwriter for children's theatre as well as a composer of classical music.
In 2010, Reyer received both the Master of Arts in Composition/Music Theater as well as her Diploma in Scenic Writing at uniT. In 2018, she was awarded a Doctor of Philosophy in Language Arts and a Screenwriter (KHM Cologne).
Her most important prizes include the Literature Promotion Prize of the City of Graz and the Manuscript Promotion Prize. In 2017, she wrote the theatre texts "vogelglück", "baumleberliebe", "hundpfarrer" and "Anna und der Wulian (Anna and the Wulian)" (publisher: Fischer-Verlag). In 2019 and 2020, she was on the shortlist for the Austria Book Prize with her novels, "Mutter Brennt" and "1431".
Reyer is a lecturer at Pädagogische Hochschule Baden.
Reyer's poems have been printed in various literary journals and anthologies. Her texts have been translated into Serbian, Polish and Spanish.
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