Composed of nine federal states, surrounded by eight countries, and itself once the centre of a vast European empire, it…
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It isn’t often that an author explains themselves. But then, it seems that Bernardo Atxaga is no ordinary author, and…
Löwenherz (‘Lionheart’) is the final instalment in Monika Helfer’s trilogy of autobiographical novels, a fascinatingly lucid body of literature that…
From Elfriede Jelinek to Ingeborg Bachmann, Marianne Fritz to Friederike Mayröcker, the Austrian literary canon contains the names of many…