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This is a list of Austrian writers, including poets This is a dynamic list and may never be able to satisfy particular standards for completeness. You can help by adding missing items with reliable sources .
Austrian writers of Realism are primarily the writer of short novels Ferdinand von Saar, Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach and the aforementioned Adalbert Stifter. Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach is known for her psychological novels and novellas as well as for her social engagement.
Pages in category "Writers from Vienna" The following 200 pages are in this category, out of approximately 453 total. This list may not reflect recent changes .
Stefan Zweig (/ z w aɪ ɡ, s w aɪ ɡ / ZWYGHE, SWYGHE, [1] German: [ˈʃtɛfan ˈtsvaɪk] ⓘ; 28 November 1881 – 22 February 1942) was an Austrian writer. At the height of his literary career, in the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most widely translated and popular writers in the world. [2] Zweig was raised in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), writer and dramatist. [20] Victor Gruen (1903–1980), architect. Ruth Grützbauch (born 1978), astronomer. Friedrich Gulda (1930–2000), composer and pianist. Alfred Guth (1908–1996), Austrian-born American water polo player, swimmer, and Olympic modern pentathlete.
Café Griensteidl in 1896 (Reinhold Völkel) Young Vienna (Jung-Wien), also referred to as Young Austria, [1] was a society of fin de siècle writers who met in Vienna's Café Griensteidl and other nearby coffeehouses in the late nineteenth century.
Lore Segal (born 1928), Austrian-born American novelist, short story writer, children's writer Gitta Sereny (1921–2012), journalist, biographer, non-fiction works, wrote in both German and English Hilde Spiel (1911–1990), journalist, essayist, critic
In the late 19th and early 20th century, leading writers of the time became attached to the atmosphere of Viennese cafés and were frequently seen to meet, exchange and to even write there. Literature composed in cafés is commonly referred to as coffee house literature, the writers thereof as coffee house poets.