WThe Festival of German-Language Literature is a literary event which takes place annually in Klagenfurt, Austria. During this major literary festival which lasts for several days a number of awards are given, the major one being the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize, first awarded in 1977 and one of the most important awards for literature in the German language.
WJürg Amann was a Swiss author and dramatist. He has written radio plays, a biography of Robert Walser, and other works.
WFranzobel is the pseudonym of the Austrian writer (Franz) Stefan Griebl. He was born on 1 March 1967 in Vöcklabruck. In 1997 he won the Wolfgang Weyrauch Prize and in 1998, the Kassel Literary Prize, amongst numerous other literary awards. In 2017 he won the prestigious Nicolas Born Prize and was long-listed for the German Book Prize for his novel, Das Floß der Medusa. He now lives in Vienna.
WUrs Jaeggi is a Swiss sociologist, painter, and author. From 1964 to 1993, he was a Professor of Sociology and Social Philosophy in Bern, Bochum, New York, and Berlin. He published numerous novels, short stories, essays as well as scientific books. He won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1981. He has participated in solo and group exhibitions since 1985. Presently he lives in Berlin and Mexico City.
WGert Jonke was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.
WKatja Lange-Müller is a German writer living in Berlin. Her works include several short stories and novellas, radio dramas, and dramatic works.
WMichael Lentz is a German author, musician, and performer of experimental texts and sound poetry.
WTetiana "Tania" Volodymyrivna Maliarchuk is a Ukrainian-born author who writes in both Ukrainian and, more recently, German.
WTerézia Mora is a Hungarian writer, screenwriter and translator.
WSten Nadolny is a German novelist. His parents, Burkhard and Isabella Nadolny, were also writers.
WSharon Dodua Otoo is a British writer, publicist and activist. In 2016 she was awarded the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for her first short story in the German language.
WKathrin Passig is a German writer.
WUlrich Plenzdorf was a German author and dramatist.
WUwe Tellkamp is a German writer and physician. He practised medicine until 2004. Before the fall of communism, he was enlisted in the National People's Army as a tank commander and imprisoned when he refused to break up a demonstration in October 1989. Until the fall of the German Democratic Republic shortly after, he was prohibited from studying medicine.
WPeter Wawerzinek is a German artist and writer.