Carolina Schutti

{{short description|Austrian writer (born 1976)}}

{{BLP one source|date=June 2015}}

File:Carolina Schutti bei den Innsbrucker Wochenendgesprächen 2012 (cropped 2022).jpg

Carolina Schutti (born 1976) is an Austrian writer.{{cite web|url=http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/author/2015/carolina-schutti|title=Carolina Schutti - European Union Prize for Literature|work=euprizeliterature.eu|accessdate=5 July 2015|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150627143153/http://www.euprizeliterature.eu/author/2015/carolina-schutti|archive-date=27 June 2015|url-status=dead}} Born in Innsbruck, she studied an eclectic range of subjects: German philology, English and American Studies, and music. She obtained her PhD on the work of the Nobel Prize-winning writer Elias Canetti. She then taught at the University of Florence, before joining Literaturhaus am Inn as a researcher. She has published widely on literary matters. Schutti received the 2015 EU Prize for Literature for her novel Einmal muss ich über weiches Gras gelaufen sein (Once I must have trodden soft grass).