Christine Werner (born 26 August 1954 in

Vienna Vienna ( ; ; ) is the capital city, capital, List of largest cities in Austria, most populous city, and one of Federal states of Austria, nine federal states of Austria. It is Austria's primate city, with just over two million inhabitants. ...

) is an Austrian writer. She is the author of dramas, literary

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, photographic art, poetry and narrative

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Biography

Christine Werner was born in 1954 in

Austria Austria, formally the Republic of Austria, is a landlocked country in Central Europe, lying in the Eastern Alps. It is a federation of nine Federal states of Austria, states, of which the capital Vienna is the List of largest cities in Aust ...

; today she is living in Vienna and

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. In her own words, she is ''an author, an action artist and an artist for the Net''. She is a playwright, and she writes literary

, poetry,

short stories A short story is a piece of prose fiction. It can typically be read in a single sitting and focuses on a self-contained incident or series of linked incidents, with the intent of evoking a single effect or mood. The short story is one of the old ...

and novels. Christine Werner is a member of the Austrian authors' associations

Grazer Autorenversammlung The Grazer Autorinnen Autorenversammlung (GAV) was founded under the name of ''Grazer Autorenversammlung'' in March 1973 and is one of the two major Austrian writers' association (besides the Austrian PEN). H. C. Artmann was its first president. ...

(GAV), Literary Circle of Linz and ÖDA (Austrian Authors writing in Dialect). She received several subsidies for literature from the Austrian government and presented her texts to the public in

and Germany.Idem and th
documentation on the author's website
.

Awards and Literary Prizes

*1996 Literary Contest Vienna *1997 Luitpold Stern Prize *1997 Subsidy for Playwrights by the Austrian government *1997 GEDOK Award

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*1998 Travel Subsidy for Literature by the Austrian government

Works

*''Meine Schuhe eingraben'', poetry, Publisher G. Grasl,

Baden bei Wien Baden (Central Bavarian: ''Bodn''), unofficially distinguished from Baden (disambiguation), other Badens as Baden bei Wien (Baden near Vienna), is a spa town in Austria. It serves as the capital of Baden (district of Austria), Baden District in t ...

1996 *''Eine Handbreit über dem Knie'', novel, Resistenz Verlag,

Linz Linz (Pronunciation: , ; ) is the capital of Upper Austria and List of cities and towns in Austria, third-largest city in Austria. Located on the river Danube, the city is in the far north of Austria, south of the border with the Czech Repub ...

/Vienna 1999 *''Wien ist nicht Chicago'', novel, Resistenz Verlag, Linz/Vienna 2000 *''fern & weh, Ein Reisefieber'',

, Sisyphus Verlag, Vienna 2002 *''Eine Handvoll Himbeeren'',

, Austrian Radio Ö1, Vienna 2002 *''Verdammt'', novella,

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, Gosau 2008

References

External links

Official author's websiteBook review (in German) about ''Wien ist nicht Chicago'', by the Viennese ''Literaturhaus''Arovell Verlag (publisher)Resistenz Verlag (publisher)German story
, printed in the literary magazine Schreibkraft. {{DEFAULTSORT:Werner, Christine Austrian women writers 1954 births Living people