Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer
Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer (born 31 August 1936) is an Austrian novelist and poet, one of the leading women prose writers in German. Her mainly fictional works present the horrors of Fascism, especially the repression of minorities. Early life and education Kerschbaumer was born in Garches near Paris where her Cuban father and Austrian mother were living to escape the Spanish Civil War. After spending her childhood years mainly in Costa Rica and the Austrian Tyrol, she worked in England for a year when she was 17 and then went on to Italy. In 1957, she returned to Austria to further her education. From 1963 she studied Romance languages at Vienna University and spent two years in Romania before earning a doctorate in Romanian linguistics in 1973. In 1971 she married the painter Helmut Kurz-Goldenstein. Career After completing her studies, Kerschbaumer worked as a translator, mainly from Spanish. Her first novel, ''Der Schwimmer'' (The Swimmer) was published in 1976, describing ...
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