The Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung (GAV) was founded under the name of ''Grazer Autorenversammlung'' in March 1973 and is one of the two major

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n writers' association (besides the Austrian

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was its first president. Other writers who contributed to the foundation of the association, were

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, Wolfgang Bauer, Georg Bydlinski,

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. Books *''Die Klosterschule'', 1968 *''Gesc ...

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, Reinhard Priessnitz, Peter Rosei, Gerhard Roth, Gerhard Rühm,

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, and Oswald Wiener. In the beginning, the GAV was located in Graz, but in 1975 its secretariat moved to Vienna, which also now became the location for meetings of its executive committee. Today, the GAV is the largest writers' association in Austria.

External links

Homepage of the GAV

Sources

* Roland Innerhofer: ''Die Grazer Autorenversammlung (1973 - 1983)''. Zur Organisation einer "Avantgarde". Wien, Köln, Graz 1985. *Herbert Zeman (Ed.): ''Das 20. Jahrhundert'', Geschichte der Literatur in Österreich Vol. 7, Akademische Druck- u. Verlagsanstalt,

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1999. *Klaus Zeyringer (Ed.): ''Österreichische Literatur seit 1945'', Haymon Verlag,

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