Johanna Sebauer (born 1988) is an Austrian writer.
Biography
Johanna Sebauer was born in
Vienna
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in 1988,
the daughter of publisher Vera Sebauer (1954–2015)
and journalist Wolfgang Weisgram.
She grew up in
Burgenland
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, studied political science at the
University of Vienna
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and then journalism in
Aarhus
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in Denmark, in
Santiago
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, Chile and in
Hamburg
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, where she moved in 2013.
In 2014, Sebauer was awarded the Burgenland Youth Literature Prize for her short story Edina on the subject of 25 years since the fall of the
Iron Curtain
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.
In 2023 she published the novel Nincshof with DuMont Buchverlag about the eponymous fictional village in Burgenland near the Hungarian border. The name of the place is derived from the
Hungarian term ''nincs'', meaning nothing or none.
For her debut novel, she was awarded the debut prize of the Harbour Front Literature Festival 2023, endowed with 10,000
euro
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s.
In 2019, she was awarded the Burgenland Literature Prize for a first version of the novel.
Sebauer works in science communication, is a member of the Hamburg writers' room and part of the Zinnober reading stage in the Zinnschmelze Barmbek.
At the invitation of Klaus Kastberger, she read her text ''Das Gurkerl'' at the competition for the
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize 2024, for which she was awarded the
3sat
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Prize, the BKS Bank Audience Prize and the City of Klagenfurt Writer's Scholarship.
Bibliography
* ''Edina'', Kurzgeschichte zum Thema ''25 Jahre Fall des Eisernen Vorhangs'', 2014.
* ''August'' und ''Wie Erna Rohdiebl aus Pamhagen ihr Herz an die Nordsee verlor'', Kurzgeschichten. In: Christoph Andexlinger: ''Junge Literatur Burgenland: Band 1'',
edition lex liszt 12, Oberwart 2018, ISBN 978-3-99016-139-5.
* ''Ein Versuch übers Sowohl-als-auch'', in ''Vom Kommen und Gehen: Burgenland: Betrachtungen von Zu- und Weggereisten'', published by Peter Menasse and Wolfgang Wagner,
Böhlau-Verlag, Vienna/Cologne 2021, ISBN 978-3-205-21275-1.
* ''Nincshof'', Roman, DuMont-Buchverlag, Cologne 2023, ISBN 978-3-8321-6820-9.
References
External links
Johanna Sebauer's official website: https://www.johannasebauer.com/
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1988 births
Living people
Writers from Vienna
21st-century Austrian writers
21st-century Austrian women writers