Marlen Haushofer née Frauendorfer (April 11, 1920 - March 21, 1970) was an Austrian author, most famous for her only novel translated into English, The Wall. Haushofer was born in Frauenstein in Upper Austria. She attended Catholic boarding school in Linz, and went on to study German literature in Vienna, as well as Graz. After her years in school, she settled in Steyr. In 1941, she married Manfred Haushofer, a dentist, and had two sons, Christian and Manfred.[1] In 1950, they divorced, only to remarry in 1958. Earning literary awards as early as 1953, Haushofer went on to publish her first novel, A Handful of Life in 1955. In 1956, she won the Theodor-Körner Prize for early contributions and projects involving art and culture. The Wall, considered her finest achievement, was published in 1962. It received the Arthur Schnitzler Prize in 1963. Her last novel The Attic was published in 1969. Her overall addition to Austrian literature, as well as her last short-story collection Terrible Faithfulness, earned her a Grand Austrian State Prize for literature in 1968.[2] In 1970, she died of bone cancer at a clinic in Vienna.
References
- Wassenberg, Charlotte. "German Author Database", S.G. Sint Ursula, 1998. Accessed May 15, 2007.
- Mayerhofer, Petra. "Feminist Authors: Marlen Haushofer", Feminist Utopian Literature Project, April 15, 2007. Accessed May 15, 2007.
- Haushofer, Marlen (1990). The Wall. San Francisco, CA: Cleis Press. ISBN 1-57344-094-9.
External links
- Marlen Haushofer in the German National Library catalogue (German)
- Marlen Haushofer im WWW (German)
- Marlen Haushofer - Ihre Wurzeln in Molln (German)
