Anton Wildgans Prize
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The Anton Wildgans Prize of Austrian Industry is a literary award that was endowed in 1962 by the Federation of Austrian Industry. The prize is worth 10,000 Euro and is granted by an independent jury to a young or middle-aged writer of Austrian citizenship.

The award is dedicated to Anton Wildgans
Anton Wildgans
Anton Wildgans was an Austrian poet and playwright.His works, in which realism, neo-romanticism and expressionism mingle, focus on the drama of daily life....

 who, "like few others, embodied Austrian values in their best sense."

Recipients

1962: Fritz Hochwälder
Fritz Hochwälder
Fritz Hochwälder also known as Fritz Hochwaelder, was an Austrian playwright. Known for his spare prose and strong moralist themes, Hochwälder won several literary awards, including the Austrian State Prize for Literature in 1966...

1963: Fritz Habeck
1964: Christine Lavant
Christine Lavant
Christine Lavant was an Austrian poet and novelist.- Life :...

1965: Andreas Okopenko
Andreas Okopenko
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1966: Herbert Zand
1967: Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard
Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet. Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.- Life :Thomas Bernhard was...

1968: Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger
Ilse Aichinger is an Austrian writer noted for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry.- Life :...

1969: Herbert Eisenreich
1970: Peter Marginter
Peter Marginter
Peter Marginter was an Austrian author, essayist and translator.-Biography:Peter Marginter studied law and political science in Innsbruck and Vienna....

1971: Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann
Ingeborg Bachmann was an Austrian poet and author.-Biography:Bachmann was born in Klagenfurt, in the Austrian state of Carinthia, the daughter of a headmaster. She studied philosophy, psychology, German philology, and law at the universities of Innsbruck, Graz, and Vienna...

1972: Milo Dor
Milo Dor
Milo Dor was a writer and translator. He described himself as "an Austrian, Viennese, and European of Serbian heritage."- Life :...

1973: Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth
Barbara Frischmuth is an Austrian writer of poetry and prose.She is a member of the Grazer Gruppe , along with Peter Handke.- Books :*Die Klosterschule, 1968...

1974: Ernst Hinterberger
Ernst Hinterberger
Ernst Hinterberger is an Austrian writer of novels, particularly detective novels, plays and successful sitcoms. His first TV scripts were unusual for their use of genuine Vienna dialect.-Life:...

1975: Christine Busta
Christine Busta
Christine Busta was an Austrian poet.She received several awards, e.g. the Georg-Trakl-Preis in 1954.In her work she stood for an undogmatic Catholicism....

1976: György Sebestyen
1977: Peter Henisch
1978: Wolfgang Kraus (author)
1979: Matthias Mander
1980: Josef Winkler
Josef Winkler (writer)
Josef Winkler is an Austrian writer.- Biography :Winkler was born in Kamering near Paternion in Kärnten. He lived during his childhood in Kärnten, where he went to school, and then to school in Villach. His works often have a Roman Catholic setting. Homosexuality is a central topic in his books....

1981: Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker
Friederike Mayröcker is an Austrian poet.- Life :From 1946 to 1969 Mayröcker was an English teacher at several public schools in Vienna. In 1969 she took a release from working as a teacher and in 1977 she retired early.She started writing as a 15 year old...

1982: Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator.- Poetry :Influenced by Dada he started to write experimental poetry, first published in the journal "Neue Wege" in 1952....

1983: Jutta Schutting
1984: Peter Handke
Peter Handke
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 (rejected)
1985: Gerd-Klaus Kaltenbrunner
1986: Kurt Klinger
1987: Inge Merkel
1988: Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr
Christoph Ransmayr is an Austrian writer.- Life :Born in Wels, Upper Austria Ransmayr grew up in Roitham near Gmunden and the Traunsee. From 1972 to 1978 he studied philosophy and ethnology in Vienna...

1989: Ilse Tielsch
1990: no award
1991: Norbert Leser
Norbert Leser
Norbert Leser is an Austrian jurist, political scientist and social philosopher best known for his lifelong affiliation with, and critical work on, the Social Democratic Party of Austria and Austromarxism in particular.-Bibliography:...

1992: Anna Mitgutsch
1993: Gert Jonke
Gert Jonke
Gert Jonke was an Austrian poet, playwright and novelist.-Life:Jonke was born and educated in Klagenfurt, Austria. He attended the Gymnasium and the Conservatory...

1994: Brigitte Hamann
Brigitte Hamann
Brigitte Hamann Ph.D., is a German-Austrian author and historian based in Vienna.Born Brigitte Deitert in Essen, Germany, she studied history in Münster and Vienna and for a time worked as a journalist in her native Essen...

1995: no award
1996: Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Köhlmeier
Michael Köhlmeier is a contemporary Austrian writer and musician.He studied Politics and German at the University of Marburg, Germany, and Mathematics and Philosophy at the universities in Giessen and Frankfurt, Germany...

1997: Evelyn Schlag
1998: Franz Josef Czernin
1999: Peter Rosei
Peter Rosei
Peter Rosei is an Austrian literary writer.Rosei attended the University of Vienna, where he earned a doctorate in law in 1968...

2000: Elisabeth Reichart
February Shadows
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2001: Vladimir Vertlib
2002: Ferdinand Schmatz
2003: Christoph Wilhelm Aigner
2004: Hans Raimund
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