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Friederike Mayröcker

Born 1924 · Austria

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    Österreichischer Buchpreis 2016 · Winner

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    Friederike Mayröcker · 92 when first published

    Poetry · 200 pages · Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:In notes written over fourteen months, a poet in Vienna talks with swallows and poppy fields, with the living and the dead, and above all with her lost companion, letting associations run free of syntax.

  • In English

    Deutscher Buchpreis 2005 · Shortlist

    The Communicating Vessels

    Und ich schüttelte einen Liebling

    Friederike Mayröcker · 81 when first published

    Novel · 264 pages · Autofiction

    AI-generated summary:After the death of her companion in life and writing, a poet gathers memories and dreams, conversations, quotations and observations into a book of remembrance and farewell.