Alois Hotschnig

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| name = Alois Hotschnig

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| caption = Alois Hotschnig at Schüpfheim Gymnasium in 2008

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| birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|10|03|df=y}}

| birth_place = Berg im Drautal,
Carinthia, Austria

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| occupation = Writer

| nationality = Austrian

| genre = Fiction

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| notableworks = Leonardo's Hands

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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".{{cite news|last=Lezard |first=Nicholas |title=Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 December 2011 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/25/maybe-this-time-alois-hotschnig-review |access-date=27 August 2011}} He first studied medicine, then German and English in Innsbruck.{{cite web | title=rowohlt-Theaterverlag :: Hotschnig, Alois | website=rowohlt-Theaterverlag | url=https://rowohlt-theaterverlag.de/tvalias/autor/71949 | language=de | access-date=14 August 2021}}{{cite web | title=Alois Hotschnig | website=internationales literaturfestival berlin | url=https://www.literaturfestival.com/autoren/autoren-2010/alois-hotschnig | language=de | access-date=14 August 2021}} He was winner of the Erich Fried Prize in 2008, the Anton Wildgans Prize in 2009, and shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010. He lives as a freelance author in Innsbruck.{{cite web | title=Alois Hotschnig | website=orawww.uibk.ac.at | date=2 February 2009 | url=https://orawww.uibk.ac.at/apex/uprod/f?p=TLL:2:0::::P2_ID:286 | language=de | access-date=14 August 2021}}

Works

{{cite book|title=Aus |publisher=Luchterhand Literaturverlag |location=Frankfurt |year=1989 |language=de |isbn=978-3-63086-692-5}}
{{cite book|title=Eine Art Glück |publisher=Luchterhand Literaturverlag |location=Frankfurt |year=1990 |language=de |isbn=978-3-85218-935-2}}
{{cite book|title=Leonardos Hände |publisher=Luchterhand Literaturverlag |location=Hamburg |year=1992 |language=de |isbn=978-3-63086-794-6}}
{{cite book|title=Absolution |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Köln |year=1994 |language=de |isbn=978-3-46202-358-9}}
{{cite book |translator=Peter Filkins |title=Leonardo's Hands |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |year=1999 |language=en |isbn=978-0-80322-387-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/leonardoshandsle0000hots }}
{{cite book|title=Ludwigs Zimmer |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Köln |year=2000 |language=de |isbn=978-3-44272-898-5}}
{{cite book|title=Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Köln |year=2006 |language=de |isbn=978-3-46203-685-5}}
{{cite book|title=In Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Köln |year=2009 |language=de |isbn=978-3-46204-137-8}}
{{cite book|title=Midi, soir et matin |publisher=Maren Sell |year=2009 |language=fr |isbn=978-2-35580-082-5}}
{{cite book|translator=Tess Lewis|title=Maybe This Time |publisher=Peirene Press |location=London |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-95628-405-1}}
{{cite book|translator=Tess Lewis|title=Ludwig's Room |publisher=Seagull Books |location=Chicago |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-85742-204-0}}

References

External links

{{cite web|title=Alois Hotschnig |publisher=International Literature Festival Berlin |url=http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2010/alois-hotschnig}}

Category:1959 births

Category:Living people

Category:20th-century Austrian novelists

Category:21st-century Austrian novelists

Category:Austrian male novelists

Category:Austrian male short story writers

Category:20th-century Austrian short story writers

Category:21st-century short story writers

Category:20th-century Austrian male writers

Category:21st-century Austrian male writers