List of Austrian writers

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Ilse Aichinger (born 1921), 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

Eduard von Bauernfeld, dramatist

Johann Beer (17th century), writer and composer

Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), dramatist, novelist, poet, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands

Hermann Broch, writer

Max Brod (1884–1968), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, wrote in German

C

Elias Canetti (born 1905), writer (born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria), wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981

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

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

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

Franz Kafka, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (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

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 (born 1924), 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

R

Doron Rabinovici, Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist

Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist

Christoph Ransmayr (born 1954), writer

Elisabeth Reichert

Neidhart von Reuental, writer and poet 13th century

Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist

Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), writer

Joseph Roth, writer (Radetzkymarsch)

S

Ferdinand von Saar (19th century), dramatist and writer

Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer and journalist

Felix Salten (1869–1945), Jewish writer (most famous work Bambi)

Arthur Schnitzler, writer

Barbara Schurz, writer and painter

Werner Schwab, playwright

Erich Fritz Schweinburg, writer

Robert Seethaler, writer and actor

Jura Soyfer, cabaret writer and political journalist, lived in Vienna

Manès Sperber, Austrian-French writer, philosopher and psychologist

Fritz Spiegl, journalist

Walter Johannes Stein, historian

Rudolf Steiner, writer and philosopher

Adalbert Stifter (died 1868), poet and artist

Bertha von Suttner, Nobel Peace Prize winner

T

Franziska Tausig, Holocaust survivor and memoirist

Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), narrative writer, essayist, script author, born in Vienna

Georg Trakl, poet

V

Hannelore Valencak (1929–2004), novelist, poet, children's writer

W

Franz Werfel, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)

Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher

Alma Wittlin (1899–1992), historian

Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376–1445), writer and composer

Z

Joseph Christian, Baron von Zedlitz, dramatist and poet

Birgit Zotz (born 1979), writer and anthropologist

Volker Zotz, writer and philosopher

Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer, born in Vienna