The Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry is a literary award that was endowed in 1962 by the Federation of Austrian Industry. The prize is worth 15,000 Euro and is granted by an independent jury to a young or middle-aged writer of Austrian citizenship.
The award is dedicated to
Anton Wildgans
Anton Wildgans (17 April 1881 – 3 May 1932) was an Austrian poet and playwright.
He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times.
Life
Born in Vienna, Wildgans studied law at the University of Vienna, from 1900 ...
who, "like few others, embodied Austrian values in their best sense."
Recipients
:1962:
Fritz Hochwälder
Fritz Hochwälder (28 May 1911 – 21 October 1986) also known as Fritz Hochwaelder, was an Austrian playwright. Known for his spare prose and strong moralist themes, Hochwälder won several literary awards, including the Grand Austrian State ...
Christine Lavant
Christine Lavant (born Christine Thonhauser, mar. Christine Habernig; 4 July 1915 – 7 June 1973) was an Austrian poet and novelist.
Life
Lavant was born in the hamlet of Großedling (today part of Wolfsberg) in the Lavant Valley, Cari ...
:1965:
Andreas Okopenko
Andreas Okopenko (15 March 1930, Košice – 27 June 2010, Vienna) was an Austrian writer.
Andreas Okopenko's father was a Ukrainian physician and his mother was Austrian. From 1939, the family lived in Vienna. After studying chemistry at the ...
Thomas Bernhard
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard (; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet who explored death, social injustice, and human misery in controversial literature that was deeply pessimistic about modern civilizati ...
:1968:
Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.
Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann (25 June 1926 – 17 October 1973) was an Austrian poet and author.
Biography
Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of Olga (née Haas) and Matthias Bachmann, a schoolteacher. Her fa ...
:1972:
Milo Dor
Milo Dor (7 March 1923 – December 2005) was a Serbian Austrian writer and translator. He described himself as "an Austrian, Viennese, and European of Serbian heritage."
Life
Milo Dor was born in to a Serbian family in Budapest, as Milutin Do ...
:1973:
Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth (born 5 July 1941 in Altaussee, Salzkammergut) is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose.
She is a member of the Grazer Gruppe (the Graz Authors' Assembly), along with Peter Handke
Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an ...
Peter Henisch
Peter may refer to:
People
* List of people named Peter, a list of people and fictional characters with the given name
* Peter (given name)
** Saint Peter (died 60s), apostle of Jesus, leader of the early Christian Church
* Peter (surname), a su ...
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker (20 December 1924 – 4 June 2021) was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, audio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avantgarde poet, and as one of the lea ...
:1982:
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl (; 1 August 1925 – 9 June 2000) was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. He became known for his experimental lyric, mainly sound poems (''Sprechgedichte'') in the tradition of concrete and visual poetic forms.
Poetry
Inf ...
Peter Handke
Peter Handke (; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian novelist, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He was awarded the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature "for an influential work that with linguistic ingenuity has explored t ...
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr (born 20 March 1954) is an Austrian writer.
Life
Born in Wels, Upper Austria, Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna. He worked there as c ...
:1989:
Ilse Tielsch
Ilse Tielsch (born Ilse Felzmann 20 March 1929 – 21 February 2023) was an Austrian writer.
Life
Ilse Tielsch was born on 20 March 1929 in Hustopeče, Czechoslovakia. She was the daughter of Fritz Felzmann (1895–1980), a doctor, writer and m ...
:1990: no award
:1991:
Norbert Leser
Norbert Leser (May 31, 1933 – December 31, 2014) was an Austrian jurist, political scientist and social philosopher best known for his lifelong affiliation with, and critical work on, the Social Democratic Party of Austria and Austromarxism in p ...
:1992:
Anna Mitgutsch
Anna Mitgutsch (born 2 October 1948) is an Austrian writer and educator. Her name also appears as Waltraud Anna Mitgutsch.
Biography
She was born in Linz and studied German and English literature at the University of Salzburg. Originally a Roman ...
:1993:
Gert Jonke
Gert Jonke (8 February 1946 – 4 January 2009) was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.
Life
Jonke was born and educated in Klagenfurt, Austria. He attended the Gymnasium (university preparatory school) and the Conservatory. After h ...
:1994:
Brigitte Hamann
Brigitte Hamann (; 26 July 1940 – 4 October 2016) was a German-Austrian author and historian based in Vienna.
Biography
Born in Essen, Germany, Hamann studied history in Münster and Vienna. She worked as a journalist in her native Essen for ...
:1995: no award
:1996:
Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Köhlmeier (born 15 October 1949 in Hard, Austria)
Franz Josef Czernin
Franz Josef Czernin (born 7 January 1952, Vienna) is an Austrian writer. He is a member of the Bohemian noble Czernin family.
Awards and honors
* 1993: Stadtschreiber von Graz
* 1997: Literaturpreis der Stadt Wien
* 1998: Anton-Wildgans-Pr ...
Elisabeth Reichart
Elisabeth Reichart (born 1953, Steyregg, Upper Austria) is an Austrian author.
Biography
Reichart's grandmother survived the Nazi occupation of Austria and strongly influenced the life of Reichart. Reichart wrote her dissertation about the Au ...
Barbara Neuwirth
Barbara may refer to:
People
* Barbara (given name)
* Barbara (painter) (1915–2002), pseudonym of Olga Biglieri, Italian futurist painter
* Barbara (singer) (1930–1997), French singer
* Barbara Popović (born 2000), also known mononymously ...
Kathrin Röggla
Kathrin Röggla (born 1971) is an Austrian writer, essayist and playwright. She was born in Salzburg, and lives in Berlin since 1992. She has written numerous prose works, including essays, dramas and radio plays. She has won a long range of award ...
:2009:
Alois Hotschnig
Alois Hotschnig (born 3 October 1959) is an Austrian writer, whose stories have been described as having "the weird, creepy, and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams". He first studied medicine, then German and English in Innsbruck. He was winn ...
:2010:
Doron Rabinovici
Doron Rabinovici is an Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist. He was born in Tel Aviv in 1961, and moved to Vienna in 1964.
Overview
His first book, ''Papirnik'' ( Suhrkamp, 1994), was a collection of short stories, most of them set i ...
:2011:
Arno Geiger
Arno Geiger (born 22 July 1968) is an Austrian novelist.
Geiger grew up in the village of Wolfurt near Bregenz. He studied German studies, ancient history and comparative literature at the universities of Innsbruck and Vienna. He has worked as ...
Erich Hackl
Erich Hackl (born 26 May 1954 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian novelist and short story writer. His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French, Czech and Hebrew though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking w ...
Robert Seethaler
Robert Seethaler (born 1966) is an Austrian novelist, and actor.
Awards and honours
* 2005: Tankred-Dorst-Drehbuchpreis der Drehbuchwerkstatt München for ''Heartbreakin’''
* 2007: Debütpreis des Buddenbrookhauses for ''Die Biene und der Kurt ...
Daniel Kehlmann
Daniel Kehlmann (; born 13 January 1975) is a German-language novelist and playwright of both Austrian and German nationality.Andrea Grill
:2022: Gertraud Klemm