Anna Weidenholzer
{{short description|Austrian journalist and writer (born 1984)}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=November 2015}}
{{Infobox writer
| name = Anna Weidenholzer
| honorific_prefix =
| honorific_suffix =
| image = File:Leipziger Buchmesse 2013 Anna Weidenholzer.JPG
| image_size =
| alt =
| caption = At the Leipziger bookfair 2013
| native_name =
| native_name_lang =
| pseudonym =
| birth_name =
| birth_date = {{birth year and age|1984}}
| birth_place = Linz
| death_date =
| death_place =
| resting_place =
| occupation =
| language = German
| nationality = Austrian
| ethnicity =
| citizenship =
| education =
| alma_mater =
| period =
| genre = Journalism,
| subject =
| movement =
| notableworks =
| spouse =
| partner =
| children =
| relatives =
| awards =
| signature =
| signature_alt =
| years_active =
| module =
| website =
| portaldisp =
}}
Anna Weidenholzer (born 21 January 1984 in Linz, Austria){{Cite web |title=AutorInnen Detail - Stifterhaus |url=https://www.stifterhaus.at/literaturhaus/literatur-netz-oberoesterreich/autorinnen-detail/Anna-Weidenholzer |access-date=2024-06-22 |website=www.stifterhaus.at |language=en-US}} is an Austrian journalist and writer.
Life
Weidenholzer studied Comparative Literature in Vienna and Wrocław and graduated with a thesis on Bosnia and Herzegovina Intercultural Literature. She worked as a journalist for Oberösterreichische Nachrichten, and has been a freelance writer since 2010. In 2012, she was writer in residence at Kitzbuhel.
Her first book Der Platz des Hundes (2010) was nominated for the European debut novel festival in Kiel. In 2013, her book Der Winter tut den Fischen gut was nominated for the Leipzig Book Fair Prize, and she was awarded the Reinhard Priessnitz Prize.{{Cite web|title = Anna Weidenholzer {{!}} New Books in German, Der Winter tut den Fischen gut (Winter is Good for Fish), author, Rights|url = http://www.new-books-in-german.com/english/1454/394/394/129002/design1.html|website = www.new-books-in-german.com|accessdate = 2 November 2015|archive-url = https://web.archive.org/web/20150917025557/http://www.new-books-in-german.com/english/1454/394/394/129002/design1.html|archive-date = 17 September 2015|url-status = dead}}
Awards
- 2009 Alfred Gesswein Literaturpreis
- 2011 Aufenthaltsstipendium Schloss Wiepersdorf
- 2011/12 Staatsstipendium für Literatur
- 2012 Aufenthaltsstipendium im Literarischen Colloquium Berlin
- 2012 Kitzbüheler Stadtschreiberin
- 2013 Reinhard Priessnitz Preis{{cite web|url=http://derstandard.at/1369363453489/Anna-Weidenholzer-bekommt-Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis |title=Anna Weidenholzer bekommt Reinhard-Priessnitz-Preis – Literaturpreise – derStandard.at › Kultur |author=STANDARD Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.H.|publisher=derstandard.at|accessdate=2 November 2015}}
Works
- Der Platz des Hundes (Erzählungen, 2010) ({{ISBN|978-3-9502828-0-1}})
- Der Winter tut den Fischen gut (Roman, 2012) ({{ISBN|978-3-7017-1583-1}})
- Weshalb die Herren Seesterne tragen (Roman, 2016) (ISBN 978-3-95757-323-0)
- Finde einem Schwan ein Boot (Roman, 2019) (ISBN 978-3-95757-768-9)
References
External links
{{external media
|video1= [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r6eNcGI5Jns FNL 2015: A Literary Brunch Part 1: Introduction & Anna Weidenholzer], 31 March 2015, Deutsches Haus at NYU
|video2 = [http://www.residenzverlag.at/?m=30&o=2&id_title=1540 Videolesung von Anna Weidenholzer im Residenz Verlag]
}}
- [http://annaweidenholzer.at/ Homepage von Anna Weidenholzer]
- [http://oe1.orf.at/programm/350090 "Als Kind wär ich am liebsten ein Pferd gewesen."][http://oe1.orf.at/programm/350090 , Feature über Anna Weidenholzer von Eva Schobel, Oe1 Radio 30. September 2013]
- [https://web.archive.org/web/20150924111007/http://www.stifter-haus.at/lib/publication_read.php?articleID=306 Eintrag zu Anna Weidenholzer von Harald Klauhs für die OÖ Literaturgeschichte des StifterHauses]
- {{German National Library portal|143302795}}
- {{Perlentaucher|anna-weidenholzer}}
{{Authority control}}
{{DEFAULTSORT:Weidenholzer, Anna}}
Category:21st-century Austrian novelists
Category:21st-century Austrian women journalists
Category:Austrian women novelists
Category:German-language writers
Category:21st-century Austrian women writers
Category:20th-century Austrian women writers
Category:21st-century Austrian journalists
{{Austria-journalist-stub}}
{{Austria-writer-stub}}