Anna Baar was born in Zagreb, lives in Klagenfurt and Vienna, and in 2022 received the Großer Österreichischer Staatspreis (‘Great Austrian State Prize’), the highest Austrian accolade in the arts. Her works were described by the jury as ‘avant-garde’ and ‘composed like a piece of musicâ
Stranger Things meets The Wire, Dungeons & Dragons and No Logo, amidst the Yugoslav Wars. Apologies if you stumbled over the title, but with its vulgar ring, Barbi Marković sets the scene as this book, despite its playful and nostalgic cover, depicts the brutal world of 1990s Belgrade, reflecte
Austrian Cultural Forum London, 28 Rutland Gate, Knightsbridge, London SW7 1PQ Wednesday 5 October, 7:00pm (Doors open: 6:30pm) We are excited to welcome Benjamin Quaderer, one of the most interesting recent literary voices from Liechtenstein and Austria, at the ACF London this autumn. He will read
Fiston Mwanza Mujila defies tidy description. A poet, novelist, playwright, professor of African literature, anthologist, musician manqué, curator, incurable polyglot and émigré, Mwanza Mujila crosses disciplines, genres, and borders in life and art. Born in Lubumbashi, a mining centre in south-e
Everything is war, always. We have never lived without war; we have never really known peace; war defines all aspects of society. In her collection of micro-essays, Marlene Streeruwitz analyses how we perceive war and how the logic of war and conflict impact us. Streeruwitz offers a distinctly femin
It’s rare for anything to be accurately described as Kafkaesque, but Tanja Maljartschuk’s short story collection neunprozentiger haushaltsessig (‘nine-percent household vinegar’) might just be the exception. Its twenty-six enigmatic, haunting, playful and sometimes surreal stories certainly
