Eva Menasse
Encyclopedia
Eva Menasse is an Austria
n author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
in Frankfurt
and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna, and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.
The English translation of her novel Vienna was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
in the UK.
Eva Menasse is married to the German author Michael Kumpfmüller
.
Austria
Austria , officially the Republic of Austria , is a landlocked country of roughly 8.4 million people in Central Europe. It is bordered by the Czech Republic and Germany to the north, Slovakia and Hungary to the east, Slovenia and Italy to the south, and Switzerland and Liechtenstein to the...
n author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung , short F.A.Z., also known as the FAZ, is a national German newspaper, founded in 1949. It is published daily in Frankfurt am Main. The Sunday edition is the Frankfurter Allgemeine Sonntagszeitung .F.A.Z...
in Frankfurt
Frankfurt
Frankfurt am Main , commonly known simply as Frankfurt, is the largest city in the German state of Hesse and the fifth-largest city in Germany, with a 2010 population of 688,249. The urban area had an estimated population of 2,300,000 in 2010...
and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna, and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.
The English translation of her novel Vienna was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
Independent Foreign Fiction Prize
The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize was inaugurated by British newspaper The Independent to honour contemporary fiction in translation in the United Kingdom. The award was first launched in 1990 and ran for five years before falling into abeyance. It was revived in 2001 with the financial support...
in the UK.
Eva Menasse is married to the German author Michael Kumpfmüller
Michael Kumpfmüller
Michael Kumpfmüller is a German writer and former journalist.-Biography:Kumpfmüller was raised in Unterschleißheim near Munich. After graduating from high school in Garching in 1980 he moved to Tübingen. He attended the Leibniz Kolleg for a one year course in General studies...
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Works
- Die letzte Märchenprinzessin, (with Elisabeth and Robert Menasse), 1997
- Klein Menasses der mächtigste Mann, (with Elisabeth and Robert Menasse), 1998
- Der Holocaust vor Gericht. Der Prozess um David Irving, 2000
- Vienna, 2005
- Lässliche Todsünden, 2009