List of Austrian writers

This is a list of Austrian writers and poets.

A

Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), writer

Peter Altenberg (1859–1910), writer and poet

Jean Améry (1912–1978), writer

Ernst Angel (1894–1986), writer, poet and psychologist

Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), writer

H. C. Artmann (died 2000), poet and writer

B

Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), poet

Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), playwright, novelist

Christoph W. Bauer (1968– ), novelist

Eduard von Bauernfeld, dramatist

Johann Beer (17th century), writer and composer

Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), dramatist, novelist, poet, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands Edmund Blum (1874–1938) Hermann Broch, writer Max Brod (1884–1968), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, wrote in German

C

Elias Canetti (1905–1994), writer (born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria), wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981 Veza Canetti (1897–1963) poet, playwright, and short story writer Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900–1978), literary critic and foremost historian of Literature Paul Celan, poet (born in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary), wrote in German Ada Christen (1839–1901), poet, short story writer, and writer of sketches

D

Robert Dassanowsky, Austrian-American poet

Michael Denis, poet

Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), writer, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna Milo Dor, Austrian writer of Serbian origin

E

Klaus Ebner (born 1964), writer, born in Vienna

Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer (style: psychological novelist) Gustav Ernst, playwright and novelist

F

Lilian Faschinger, novelist, poet, and literary translator

Franzobel (real name: Stefan Griebl), writer

Sigmund Freud, philosopher, psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis

Alfred Fried, writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911

Erich Fried, poet and novelist

Egon Friedell, author, journalist and actor

Marianne Fritz, writer and novelist

G

Karl-Markus Gauß (born 1954), essayist, Salzburg

Karin Gayer (born 1969), writer, Mödling and Vienna

Thomas Glavinic (born 1972), writer, Graz

Heinrich Glücksmann (1864–1947), writer

Constantin Göttfert (born 1979), writer

Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), dramatist, Vienna

H

Wolf Haas, writer best known for his Brenner novels

Friedrich Halm (1806–1871) Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), poet Peter Handke (born 1942), author, born in Griffen (Carinthia) Josef Haslinger, writer Friedrich Heer (1916–1983), historian and writer, Vienna Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), writer and traveller Fritz Hochwälder, playwright Hugo von Hofmannsthal, dramatist, writer Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938), writer, born in Fiume (today Rijeka), Austria-Hungary

J

Ernst Jandl, experimental lyric

Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature

K

Eugenie Kain, writer, born in Linz, wrote in German

Franz Kafka, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German) Ernst Kein (1928-1985), writer, born in Vienna, wrote in German Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer (born 1936), novelist, poet Egon Erwin Kisch, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German) Werner Kofler (1947–2011), novelist Ludwig von Köchel, writer, composer, botanist, music historian Karl Kraus (1874–1936), essayist, poet, dramatist Anton Kuh, writer and journalist

L

Minna Lachs (1907–1993), educator and memoirist

Ann Tizia Leitich (1896–1976), writer and journalist

Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, playwright

Nikolaus Lenau (1802–1850), poet

Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966), poet

Mira Lobe (1913–1995), children's literature writer

Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989)

M

Rosa Mayreder, writer and suffragette

Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021), contemporary writer

Robert Menasse, writer and publicist

Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), writer

Frederic Morton (born 1924), journalist and novelist

Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, known as Friedrich Halm (1806–1871), writer and dramatist Robert Musil, writer

N

Günther Nenning, journalist

Johann Nestroy, playwright

Christine Nöstlinger, writer (especially literature for children)

O

Andreas Okopenko, writer

P

Katharina Prato (1818–1897), cookbook writer

Leo Perutz, writer

Andreas P. Pittler (born 1964), writer

Thomas Pollan (born 1971) Ursula Poznanski (born 1968), writer