Friederike Gösweiner
Austria
Friederike Gösweiner, born in Rum in 1980, lives in Vienna and Tyrol, where she works as a writer and editor. She writes regular reviews for the Austrian newspaper Die Presse and is an editor of wespennest, one of Austria’s most renowned literary journals.
Her prose debut Traurige Freiheit (Sad Freedom, 2016) received the Austrian Book Prize in the debut category, followed by the novel Regenbogenweiß (Rainbowwhite, 2022). She also wrote the libretto for Thomas Larcher’s opera The Hunting Gun, shortlisted for the International Opera Award. Most recently she was awarded the Grand Literature Grant of the Province of Tyrol for 2025/26 and the Elias Canetti Grant of the City of Vienna.
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