With her Klagenfurt speech on the literature under the title “Three Days in May”, the 49th day of German -language literature opened last night the Iran, who came from Iran and lived in Graz. Today the betting reading starts around the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize endowed with 25,000 euros. There are also four authors from Austria among the 14 candidates, one of them comes from Upper Austria: Verena Stauffer from Molln.
The 47-year-old with her volume of poems “Kiki Beach” is in first place on the ORF best list, in 2020 she managed to be nominated for the Austrian Book Prize as one of the few, with a poetry book (“Ousia”). The mother of four, whose works have been translated into five languages so far, taught as an visiting professor in 2020 at the University of Tomsk and 2021 at Allegheny College in Pennsylvania.
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Image: Erwin Scheriau (APA)
Source: Nachrichten
