Clemens J. Setz (born 15 November 1982, in

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), is an Austrian writer and translator. He debuted in 2007 with the novel ''Söhne und Planeten''. His second novel, ''Die Frequenzen'', was shortlisted for the

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. He won the 2011

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with the short story collection ''Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes''. In 2012 he was again shortlisted for the German Book Prize for the novel ''Indigo'', and in 2015 he received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for ''Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre''. He published literature translations into German of

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: ''Entering Hades'',

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: (''The Utter Zoo''; ''The Hapless Child''; ''The Osbick Bird'') and Scott McClanahan: ''Sarah''. In 2020 he was awarded the Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis and the prestigious Kleist Prize, in 2021 the

Georg Büchner Prize The Georg Büchner Prize (german: link=no, Georg-Büchner-Preis) is the most important literary prize for German language literature, along with the Goethe Prize. The award is named after dramatist and writer Georg Büchner, author of ''Woyzeck ...

. Clemens J. Setz lives and works in Vienna.

List of works

* ''Söhne und Planeten''. Novel. Residenz, St. Pölten 2007. * ''Die Frequenzen''. Novel. Residenz, St. Pölten 2009. * ''Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes''. Short stories. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2011. * ''Zeitfrauen''. (''Schöner Lesen'' Nr. 112.) SuKuLTuR, Berlin 2012. * ''Indigo''. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2012. Published in English in 2014. * ''Die Vogelstraußtrompete.'' Poems. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2014. * ''Glücklich wie Blei im Getreide''. Retellings. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2015. * ''Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre''. Novel. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2015. * ''Verweilen unter schwebender Last''. (Tübinger Poetik-Dozentur 2015, with Kathrin Passig), Essays, Lectures, Speeches. Swiridoff, Künzelsau 2016. * ''Der Trost runder Dinge''. Short stories. Suhrkamp, Berlin 2019. *''Die Bienen und das Unsichtbare'', Suhrkamp, Berlin 2020. (de) Wolfgang Popp,
Clemens Setz und die Grenzen der Sprache
'', ORF.at

References

External links

at the German publisher's website
Publicity page
at the American publisher's website {{DEFAULTSORT:Setz, Clemens J. 1982 births 21st-century Austrian novelists 21st-century Austrian poets Austrian male short story writers Austrian translators Living people Writers from Graz Austrian male poets Austrian male novelists 21st-century short story writers 21st-century male writers 21st-century translators Georg Büchner Prize winners