The Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry is a literary award that was endowed in 1962 by the Federation of Austrian Industry. The prize is worth 10,000 Euro and is granted by an independent jury to a young or middle-aged writer of Austrian citizenship.

The award is dedicated to Anton Wildgans

Anton Wildgans

Anton Wildgans was an Austrian poet and playwright.His works, in which realism, neo-romanticism and expressionism mingle, focus on the drama of daily life....

 who, "like few others, embodied Austrian values in their best sense."

Recipients

1962: Fritz Hochwälder

Fritz Hochwälder

Fritz Hochwälder also known as Fritz Hochwaelder, was an Austrian playwright. Known for his spare prose and strong moralist themes, Hochwälder won several literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for Literature in 1966...

1963: Fritz Habeck

1964: Christine Lavant

Christine Lavant

Christine Lavant was an Austrian poet and novelist.- Life :...

1965: Andreas Okopenko

Andreas Okopenko

Andreas Okopenko was an Austrian writer.Andreas Okopenko's father was a Ukrainian physician and his mother was Austrian. From 1939, the family lived in Vienna. After studying chemistry at the University of Vienna Okopenko was active in the industry. Starting from 1950 he dedicated himself...

1966: Herbert Zand

1967: Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard

Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.- Life :Thomas Bernhard was...

1968: Ilse Aichinger

Ilse Aichinger

Ilse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.- Life :...

1969: Herbert Eisenreich

1970: Peter Marginter

Peter Marginter

Peter Marginter was an Austrian author, essayist and translator.-Biography:Peter Marginter studied law and political science in Innsbruck and Vienna....

1971: Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann

Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.-Biography:Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of a headmaster. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna...

1972: Milo Dor

Milo Dor

Milo Dor was a writer and translator. He described himself as "an Austrian, Viennese, and European of Serbian heritage."- Life :...

1973: Barbara Frischmuth

Barbara Frischmuth

Barbara Frischmuth is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose.She is a member of the Grazer Gruppe , along with Peter Handke.- Books :*Die Klosterschule, 1968...

1974: Ernst Hinterberger

Ernst Hinterberger

Ernst Hinterberger is an Austrian writer of novels, particularly detective novels, plays and successful sitcoms. His first TV scripts were unusual for their use of genuine Vienna dialect.-Life:...

1975: Christine Busta

Christine Busta

Christine Busta was an Austrian poet.She received several awards, e.g. the Georg-Trakl-Preis in 1954.In her work she stood for an undogmatic Catholicism....

1976: György Sebestyen

1977: Peter Henisch

1978: Wolfgang Kraus (author)

1979: Matthias Mander

1980: Josef Winkler

Josef Winkler (writer)

Josef Winkler is an Austrian writer.- Biography :Winkler was born in Kamering near Paternion in Kärnten. He lived during his childhood in Kärnten, where he went to school, and then to school in Villach. His works often have a Roman Catholic setting. Homosexuality is a central topic in his books....

1981: Friederike Mayröcker

Friederike Mayröcker

Friederike Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.- Life :From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.She started writing as a 15 year old...

1982: Ernst Jandl

Ernst Jandl

Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.- Poetry :Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" in 1952....

1983: Jutta Schutting

1984: Peter Handke

Peter Handke

Peter Handke is an avant-garde Austrian novelist and playwright.-Early life:Handke and his mother lived in the Soviet-occupied Pankow district of Berlin from 1944 to 1948 before resettling in Griffen...

 (rejected)

1985: Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner

1986: Kurt Klinger

1987: Inge Merkel

1988: Christoph Ransmayr

Christoph Ransmayr

Christoph Ransmayr is an Austrian writer.- Life :Born in Wels, Upper Austria Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna...

1989: Ilse Tielsch

1990: no award

1991: Norbert Leser

Norbert Leser

Norbert Leser is an Austrian jurist, political scientist and social philosopher best known for his lifelong affiliation with, and critical work on, the Social Democratic Party of Austria and Austromarxism in particular.-Bibliography:...

1992: Anna Mitgutsch

1993: Gert Jonke

Gert Jonke

Gert Jonke was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.-Life:Jonke was born and educated in Klagenfurt, Austria. He attended the Gymnasium and the Conservatory...

1994: Brigitte Hamann

Brigitte Hamann

Brigitte Hamann Ph.D., is a German-Austrian author and historian based in Vienna.Born Brigitte Deitert in Essen, Germany, she studied history in Münster and Vienna and for a time worked as a journalist in her native Essen...

1995: no award

1996: Michael Köhlmeier

Michael Köhlmeier

Michael Köhlmeier is a contemporary Austrian writer and musician.He studied Politics and German at the University of Marburg, Germany, and Mathematics and Philosophy at the universities in Giessen and Frankfurt, Germany...

1997: Evelyn Schlag

1998: Franz Josef Czernin

1999: Peter Rosei

Peter Rosei

Peter Rosei is an Austrian literary writer.Rosei attended the University of Vienna, where he earned a doctorate in law in 1968...

2000: Elisabeth Reichart

February Shadows

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2001: Vladimir Vertlib

2002: Ferdinand Schmatz

2003: Christoph Wilhelm Aigner

2004: Hans Raimund