Imma von Bodmershof (born Emma Lilly Isolde von Ehrenfels) (August 10, 1895 – August 26, 1982) was an

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born in

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. She received the Grand Austrian State Prize in 1958 for her work ''Sieben Handvoll Salz'' (Seven Handfuls of Sand), a novel set in

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. She was engaged to be married to and influenced by the works of Norbert von Hellingrath. She had a talent for writing

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and published several volumes. Imma was the daughter of Baron Christian von Ehrenfels, the founder of the modern structural Gestalt psychology in Austria. She was also the sister of Umar Rolf Baron Ehrenfels, an orientalist and

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who converted to

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Works

* ''Der zweite Sommer'' (1937) * ''Die Stadt in Flandern'' (1939) * ''Begegnung im Frühling'' (1942) * ''Die Jahreszeiten'' (1943) * ''Die Rosse des Urban Roithner'' (1944) * ''Das verlorene Meer'' (1952) * ''Solange es Tag ist'' (1953) * ''Sieben Handvoll Salz'' (1958) * ''Unter acht Winden'' - ''(Under Eight Winds in English)'' (1962) * ''Haiku'' (1962) * ''Sonnenuhr'' (1973) * ''Im fremden Garten. 99 Haiku'' (1980) * ''Ibarras Bartabnahme'' (1982)

Decorations and awards

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(1958) * Culture Prize of Lower Austria (1965) *

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(1969) * City of Vienna Prize for Literature (1969)

References

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1895 births 1982 deaths Writers from Graz Austrian women poets Austrian baronesses Recipients of the Grand Austrian State Prize Recipients of the Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art, 1st class 20th-century poets 20th-century women writers {{austria-poet-stub