List of Austrian writers
This is a list of Austrian writers and poets.
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A
- Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), writer
- Peter Altenberg (1859–1910), writer and poet
- Jean Améry (1912–1978), writer
- Ernst Angel (1894–1986), writer, poet and psychologist
- Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), writer
- H. C. Artmann (1921–2000), poet and writer
B
- Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), poet
- Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), playwright, novelist
- Christoph W. Bauer (1968– ), novelist
- Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890), dramatist
- Johann Beer (17th century), writer and composer
- Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), dramatist, novelist, poet, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
- Edmund Blum (1874–1938)
- Hermann Broch (1886–1951), writer
- Max Brod (1884–1968), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, wrote in German
C
- Elias Canetti (1905–1994), writer (born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria), wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
- Veza Canetti (1897–1963) poet, playwright, and short story writer
- Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900–1978), literary critic and foremost historian of Literature
- Paul Celan (1920–1970), poet (born in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary), wrote in German
- Ada Christen (1839–1901), poet, short story writer, and writer of sketches
D
- Robert Dassanowsky (1965–2023), Austrian-American poet
- Michael Denis (1729–1800), poet
- Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), writer, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna
- Milo Dor (1923–2005), Austrian writer of Serbian origin
E
- Klaus Ebner (born 1964), writer, born in Vienna
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), writer (style: psychological novelist)
- Gustav Ernst (born 1944), playwright and novelist
F
- Lilian Faschinger (born 1950), novelist, poet, and literary translator
- Franzobel (born 1967) (real name: Stefan Griebl), writer
- Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), philosopher, psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis
- Alfred Fried (1864–1921), writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
- Erich Fried (1921–1988), poet and novelist
- Egon Friedell (1878–1938), author, journalist and actor
- Marianne Fritz (1948–2007), writer and novelist
G
- Karl-Markus Gauß (born 1954), essayist, Salzburg
- Karin Gayer (born 1969), writer, Mödling and Vienna
- Thomas Glavinic (born 1972), writer, Graz
- Heinrich Glücksmann (1864–1947), writer
- Constantin Göttfert (born 1979), writer
- Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), dramatist, Vienna
H
- Wolf Haas (born 1960), writer best known for his Brenner novels
- Friedrich Halm (1806–1871)
- Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), poet
- Peter Handke (born 1942), author, born in Griffen (Carinthia)
- Josef Haslinger (born 1955), writer
- Friedrich Heer (1916–1983), historian and writer, Vienna
- Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), writer and traveller
- Fritz Hochwälder (1911–1986), playwright
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), dramatist, writer
- Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938), writer, born in Fiume (today Rijeka), Austria-Hungary
J
- Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), experimental lyric
- Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
K
- Eugenie Kain (1960–2010), writer, born in Linz, wrote in German[1]
- Franz Kafka (1883–1924), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
- Ernst Kein (1928-1985), writer, born in Vienna, wrote in German
- Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer (born 1936), novelist, poet
- Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
- Werner Kofler (1947–2011), novelist
- Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
- Karl Kraus (1874–1936), essayist, poet, dramatist
- Anton Kuh (1890–1941), writer and journalist
L
- Minna Lachs (1907–1993), educator and memoirist
- Ann Tizia Leitich (1896–1976), writer and journalist
- Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897–1976), novelist, poet, playwright
- Nikolaus Lenau (1802–1850), poet
- Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966), poet
- Mira Lobe (1913–1995), children's literature writer
- Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989)
M
- Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938), writer and suffragette
- Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021), contemporary writer
- Robert Menasse (born 1954), writer and publicist
- Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), writer
- Frederic Morton (1924–2015), journalist and novelist
- Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, known as Friedrich Halm (1806–1871), writer and dramatist
- Robert Musil (1880–1942), writer
N
- Günther Nenning (1921–2006), journalist
- Johann Nestroy (1801–1862), playwright
- Christine Nöstlinger (1936–2018), writer (especially literature for children)
O
- Andreas Okopenko (1930–2010) , writer
P
- Katharina Prato (1818–1897), cookbook writer
- Leo Perutz (1882–1957), writer
- Andreas P. Pittler (born 1964), writer
- Thomas Pollan (born 1971)
- Ursula Poznanski (born 1968), writer
R
- Doron Rabinovici (born 1961), Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist
- Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836), writer and dramatist
- Christoph Ransmayr (born 1954), writer
- Elisabeth Reichert (born 1953), writer
- Neidhart von Reuental, writer and poet 13th century
- Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), poet and novelist
- Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), writer
- Joseph Roth (1894–1939), writer (Radetzkymarsch)
S
- Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906), dramatist and writer
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836–1895), writer and journalist
- Hamid Sadr (born 1946), author from Iran
- Felix Salten (1869–1945), Jewish writer (most famous work Bambi)
- Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), writer
- Barbara Schurz (born 1973), writer and painter
- Werner Schwab (1958–1994), playwright
- Erich Fritz Schweinburg (1890–1959), writer
- Robert Seethaler (born 1966), writer and actor
- Hans Werner Sokop (born 1942), poet and translator
- Jura Soyfer (1912–1933), cabaret writer and political journalist, lived in Vienna
- Manès Sperber (1905–1984), Austrian-French writer, philosopher and psychologist
- Fritz Spiegl (1926–2003), journalist
- Walter Johannes Stein (1891–1957), historian
- Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), writer and philosopher
- Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), poet and artist
- Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), Nobel Peace Prize winner
T
- Franziska Tausig (1895–1989), Holocaust survivor and memoirist
- Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), narrative writer, essayist, script author, born in Vienna
- Georg Trakl (1887–1914), poet
V
- Hannelore Valencak (1929–2004), novelist, poet, children's writer
W
- Franz Werfel (1890–1945), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
- Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher
- Alma Wittlin (1899–1992), historian[2]
- Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376–1445), writer and composer
Z
- Joseph Christian, Baron von Zedlitz (1790–1862), dramatist and poet
- Birgit Zotz (born 1979), writer and anthropologist
- Volker Zotz, writer and philosopher
- Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer, born in Vienna
References
- "Autorin Eugenie Kain 49-jährig gestorben". Der Standard (in German). 8 January 2010.
- "Alma S. Wittlin (1899–1992) Preliminary remarks on the life and scholarship of an Austrian émigré" (PDF). Institute of Modern Languages Research. Archived from the original (PDF) on 14 November 2016.
See also
- List of Austrian women writers
- List of Austrians
- Lists of authors
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