20th-century Austrian novelists

The list 20th-century Austrian novelists includes Waris Dirie, Peter Handke, Franz Kafka, Stefan Zweig and Thomas Bernhard. The list consists of 81 members.

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Waris Dirie

Somali model, author, actress, and activist (born 1965)

Overview: Waris Dirie (Somali: Waris Diiriye) (born 1965) is a Somali model, author, actress and human rights activist in the fight against Female Genital Mutilation (FGM). From 1997 to 2003, she served as a UN ...

Date of birth: 21 October 1965

Age: 59

Nationality: Somali

Occupation: Model

Gender: Female

Height: 5' 9" (175 cm)

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Austrian women activists 40T

Violence against women in Somalia 8T

21st-century Somalian women writers 11T
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Peter Handke

Australian novelist and playwright

Overview: Peter Handke (born 6 December 1942) is a Nobel laureate novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter from Austria. Handke was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2019.

Date of birth: 6 December 1942

Age: 82

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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21st-century Austrian male writers 13T

Austrian male dramatists and playwrights 77T

20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 60T
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Franz Kafka

Bohemian writer (1883–1924)

Overview: Franz Kafka (3 July 1883 – 3 June 1924) was a German-speaking Bohemian novelist and short-story writer, widely regarded as one of the major figures of 20th-century literature. His work fuses elements of ...

Date of birth: 3 July 1883

Date of death: 3 June 1924

Age: 40 (age at death)

Nationality: Czech

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

Height: 6' (183 cm)

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Austrian male novelists 51T

Tuberculosis deaths in Austria 20T

Austrian surrealist writers 1T
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Thomas Bernhard

Austrian playwright and novelist (1931–1989)

Overview: Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard's body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World ...

Date of birth: 9 February 1931

Date of death: 12 February 1989

Age: 58 (age at death)

Nationality: Dutch

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Philosophical pessimists 36T

Austrian male novelists 17T

Austrian male dramatists and playwrights 77T
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Stefan Zweig

Austrian writer (1881–1942)

Overview: Stefan Zweig ( 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian novelist, playwright, journalist and biographer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most ...

Date of birth: 28 November 1881

Date of death: 22 February 1942

Age: 60 (age at death)

Nationality: Hungarian

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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20th-century Austrian journalists 65T

Suicides by Jews during the Holocaust 72T

1942 suicides 41T
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Elfriede Jelinek

Austrian playwright and novelist

Overview: Elfriede Jelinek (born 20 October 1946) is an Austrian playwright and novelist. She was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004 for her "musical flow of voices and counter-voices in novels and plays ...

Date of birth: 20 October 1946

Age: 78

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Female

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Jewish Austrian writers 12T

20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 60T

Austrian women dramatists and playwrights 9T
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Arthur Schnitzler

Austrian writer and doctor

Overview: Arthur Schnitzler (15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and dramatist.

Date of birth: 15 May 1862

Date of death: 21 October 1931

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Austrian male dramatists and playwrights 77T

20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 60T

Austrian medical writers 15T
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Felix Salten

Austrian writer

Overview: Felix Salten (6 September 1869 – 8 October 1945) was an Austro-Hungarian author and literary critic in Vienna. His most famous work is Bambi, a Life in the Woods (1923).

Date of birth: 6 September 1869

Date of death: 8 October 1945

Age: 76 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Austrian male novelists 17T

Austrian male dramatists and playwrights 77T

20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 60T
9.

Daniel Kehlmann

Author

Overview: Daniel Kehlmann ( born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality. His novel Die Vermessung der Welt (translated into English by Carol Brown ...

Date of birth: 13 January 1975

Age: 50

Nationality: German

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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21st-century German male writers 113T

20th-century German male writers 442T

21st-century male writers 1,614T
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Muhammad Asad

Austro-Hungarian writer and academic

Overview: Muhammad Asad (Arabic: محمد أسد‎ /muħammad asad/, Urdu: محمد أسد‎, born Leopold Weiss; 2 July 1900 – 20 February 1992) was an Austro-Hungarian-born Muslim journalist, traveler, writer, linguist ...

Date of birth: 2 July 1900

Date of death: 23 February 1992

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Pakistani

Occupation: Diplomat

Gender: Male

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20th-century journalists 2,834T

20th-century Muslim scholars of Islam 261T

Pakistani people of Austrian-Jewish descent 2T
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Susanna Kubelka

Austrian writer

Overview: Susanna Kubelka von Hermanitz (September 1942 – 6 May 2024) was a German-speaking writer living in France.

Date of birth: September 1942

Date of death: 6 May 2024

Age: 81 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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Writers from Linz 21T

21st-century Austrian women writers 33T

20th-century Austrian women writers 54T
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Hugo von Hofmannsthal

Austrian novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist (1874–1929)

Overview: Hugo Laurenz August Hofmann von Hofmannsthal (1 February 1874 – 15 July 1929) was an Austrian prodigy, a novelist, librettist, poet, dramatist, narrator, and essayist.

Date of birth: 1 February 1874

Date of death: 15 July 1929

Age: 55 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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Austrian male novelists 17T

Austrian male dramatists and playwrights 77T

20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 60T
13.

Gina Kaus

American novelist

Overview: Gina Kaus (born Regina Wiener; 21 October 1893, Vienna, Austria – 23 December 1985, Los Angeles, California) was an Austrian-American novelist and screenwriter.

Date of birth: 21 November 1894

Date of death: 23 December 1985

Age: 91 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Screenwriter

Gender: Female

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20th-century American screenwriters 1,746T

20th-century American women writers 5,363T

Jewish American screenwriters 270T
14.

Gregor von Rezzori

Austrian-born author and actor

Overview: Gregor von Rezzori (May 13, 1914 – April 23, 1998), born Gregor Arnulph Hilarius d'Arezzo, was an Austrian-born, Romanian, German-language novelist, memoirist, screenwriter and author of radio plays ...

Date of birth: 13 May 1914

Date of death: 23 April 1998

Age: 83 (age at death)

Nationality: Italian

Occupation: Journalist

Gender: Male

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University of Leoben alumni 11T

20th-century memoirists 804T

Romanian writers in German 8T
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Leo Perutz

Austrian mathematician and writer

Overview: Leopold Perutz (2 November 1882, Prague – 25 August 1957, Bad Ischl) was an Austrian novelist and mathematician. He was born in Prague (now capital of the Czech Republic) and was thus a citizen of the ...

Date of birth: 2 November 1882

Date of death: 25 August 1957

Age: 74 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Novelist

Gender: Male

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Burials at the Bad Ischl Friedhof 11T

20th-century Austrian male writers 109T

Czech writers in German 26T
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Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach

Austrian writer

Overview: Countess Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (Czech: Marie von Ebner-Eschenbachová, German: Marie Freifrau von Ebner-Eschenbach; September 13, 1830 – March 12, 1916) was an Austrian writer. Noted for her ...

Date of birth: 13 September 1830

Date of death: 12 March 1916

Age: 85 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Female

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19th-century Austrian novelists 17T

Austrian women short story writers 4T

19th-century Austrian women writers 26T
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Robert Musil

Austrian writer

Overview: Robert Musil (6 November 1880 – 15 April 1942) was an Austrian philosophical writer. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is generally considered to be ...

Date of birth: 6 November 1880

Date of death: 15 April 1942

Age: 61 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Austrian male novelists 17T

Writers from Klagenfurt 9T

Austrian male dramatists and playwrights 77T
18.

Gustav Meyrink

Austrian Author

Overview: Gustav Meyrink (January 19, 1868 – December 4, 1932) was the pseudonym of Gustav Meyer, an Austrian author, novelist, dramatist, translator, and banker, most famous for his novel The Golem. He has been ...

Date of birth: 19 January 1868

Date of death: 4 December 1932

Age: 64 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Writer

Gender: Male

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20th-century Austrian male writers 109T

Austrian male short story writers 17T

20th-century short story writers 736T
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Siegfried Trebitsch

Overview: Siegfried Trebitsch (1868–1956) was an Austrian playwright, translator, novelist and poet. Though prolific as a writer in various genres, he was best known for his German translations, especially of the ...

Date of birth: 22 December 1868

Date of death: 3 June 1956

Age: 87 (age at death)

Nationality: Irish

Occupation: Playwright

Gender: Male

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Austrian male novelists 17T

Austrian male dramatists and playwrights 77T

20th-century Austrian dramatists and playwrights 60T
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Karl Hans Strobl

Writer

Overview: Karl Hans Strobl (18 January 1877 (Jihlava) – 10 March 1946 (Perchtoldsdorf)) was an Austrian author and editor. Strobl is best known for his horror and fantasy writings. Strobl was a member of the ...

Date of birth: 18 January 1877

Date of death: 10 March 1946

Age: 69 (age at death)

Nationality: Austrian

Occupation: Author

Gender: Male

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20th-century Austrian male writers 109T

Austrian male short story writers 17T

20th-century short story writers 736T