Anna Mitgutsch

Anna Mitgutsch studied at University of Salzburg. The recorded working language is German. Subjects and genres recorded for the work are prose. Employment is recorded with Amherst College, University of Innsbruck and University of Hull. Distinctions recorded are Anton Wildgans Prize, Solothurner Literaturpreis, Heinrich Gleißner award and honorary degree.

She was born in Linz and studied German and English literature at the University of Salzburg. Originally a Roman Catholic, Mitgutsch converted to Judaism and worked on a kibbutz in Israel. She taught at the Institute for American Studies at the University of Innsbruck and, after going to England, at the University of Hull and University of East Anglia. Next, She taught for a year in Seoul, South Korea and then at colleges and universities in the United States from 1979 until 1985, when Mitgutsch returned to Austria. She lives in Linz and divides her time between that city and Boston. Her first novel was Three Daughters (Die Züchtigung) (1985), followed by The Other Face (Das andere Gesicht) in 1986. In 1989, she published Exclusion (Ausgrenzung) and, in 1992, In Foreign Cities (In fremden Städten). Her novels deal with individuals facing difficulties in becoming part of a society that is indifferent or antagonistic to them. Her work also explores the connections between the present and the past. Several of her novels have been translated into English. Mitgutsch's novels often make the reader feel uncomfortable.

• 1974: Zur Lyrik von Ted Hughes. Diss. Phil., Salzburg. • 1980: On poets & poetry: second series. With Joseph L. Schneider and Anita Weinzinger. Salzburg. • 1980: Metamorphical gaps and negation in the poetry of W.S. Merwin, Mark Strand and Charles Simic. The immigrant experience in Pnin and Mr. Sammler's planet. With Joseph L. Schneider [u.a.]. Salzburg. • The image of the female in D. H. Lawrence’s poetry. With James Hoff. Salzburg. • On poetry & poetry, third series. With James Hoff, Salzburg. • Die Züchtigung. Roman. Düsseldorf (Claassen), 1985; dtv. • 1987: Three daughters. New York, Harcourt Brace Janovanovich. • 1988: Punishment. London, Virago. • 1986: Das andere Gesicht. Roman. Düsseldorf (Claassen); dtv • 1989: Ausgrenzung. Roman. Frankfurt am Main (Luchterhand) • 1992: In fremden Städten. Roman. Hamburg (Luchterhand) • 1995: In foreign cities. Riverside, Ariadne. • 1995: Abschied von Jerusalem. Roman. Berlin (Rowohlt Berlin). dtv • 1997: Lover, traitor a Jerusalem story. New York (Metropolitan/Holt). • 1999: Erinnern und erfinden. Grazer Vorlesungen. Graz (Droschl). • 2000: Haus der Kindheit. Roman. München (Luchterhand) • 2006: House of childhood. New York, Other Press. • 2003: Familienfest. Roman. München (Luchterhand); btb • 2007: Zwei Leben und ein Tag. Roman. München (Luchterhand); btb • 2010: Wenn du wiederkommst. Roman. München (Luchterhand) ISBN 978-3-641-04345-2; btb • 2013: Die Grenzen der Sprache. An den Rändern des Schweigens. Essays. In:Unruhe bewahren. Residenz-Verlag (St. Pölten). • 2013: Die Welt, die Rätsel bleibt. Essays. München (Luchterhand) • 2016: Die Annäherung. Roman. München (Luchterhand); btb 2018 • 2024: Unzustellbare Briefe. Erzählungen. München (Luchterhand)

Anna Mitgutsch is recorded with the occupation university teacher. Recorded with the occupation scholar of English. Recorded with the occupation literary critic. Classed in the genre prose. Recorded as having received Anton Wildgans Prize, Solothurner Literaturpreis and Heinrich Gleißner award. Recognition and collections. Mitgutsch received Anton Wildgans Prize, Solothurner Literaturpreis, Heinrich Gleißner award, honorary degree, Österreichischer Kunstpreis für Literatur and Johann Beer literary award.

• Brüder-Grimm-Preis der Stadt Hanau (1985) • Cultural Prize of the State of Upper Austria (1986) • Claassen-Rose Prize (1986) • Prize of the city of Bozen (1990) • Anton Wildgans Prize (1992) • Prize of the Austrian Federal Ministry of Literature and Art (1995) • Solothurner Literaturpreis (2001) • Großes Goldenes Ehrenzeichen der Stadt Linz für Verdienste um die Kultur (2019) • Adalbert Stifter Prize Source:

• 2015 Honorary doctorate of the University of Salzburg