Carolina Schutti (born 1976) is an

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writer. Born in

Innsbruck Innsbruck (; bar, Innschbruck, label=Bavarian language, Austro-Bavarian ) is the capital of Tyrol (state), Tyrol and the List of cities and towns in Austria, fifth-largest city in Austria. On the Inn (river), River Inn, at its junction with the ...

, she studied an eclectic range of subjects:

German philology German studies is the field of humanities that researches, documents and disseminates German language and literature in both its historic and present forms. Academic departments of German studies often include classes on German culture, German hi ...

, English and American Studies, and music. She obtained her PhD on the work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer

Elias Canetti Elias Canetti (; bg, Елиас Канети; 25 July 1905 – 14 August 1994) was a German-language writer, born in Ruse, Bulgaria to a Sephardic family. They moved to Manchester, England, but his father died in 1912, and his mother took her t ...

. She then taught at the

University of Florence The University of Florence (Italian: ''Università degli Studi di Firenze'', UniFI) is an Italian public research university located in Florence, Italy. It comprises 12 schools and has around 50,000 students enrolled. History The first universi ...

, before joining Literaturhaus am Inn as a researcher. She has published widely on literary matters. Schutti received the 2015

EU Prize for Literature The European Union Prize for Literature (EUPL), established in 2009, is a European Union literary award. Its aim is to recognise outstanding new literary talents from all over Europe, to promote the circulation and translation of literature among ...

for her novel ''Einmal muss ich über weiches Gras gelaufen sein'' (''Once I must have trodden soft grass'').

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1976 births Living people Writers from Innsbruck Austrian women novelists 21st-century Austrian women writers 21st-century Austrian novelists Academic staff of the University of Florence {{Austria-writer-stub