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Marlene Streeruwitz

Born 1950 · Austria

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Books on prize lists

  • No English yet

    Österreichischer Buchpreis 2025 · Shortlist

    Auflösungen

    Title translated by AI:“Dissolutions”

    Marlene Streeruwitz · 75 when first published

    Novel · 411 pages · Politics

    AI-generated summary:Nina Wagner, 56, a poet from Vienna and a single mother, teaches in New York. Walking through her own very personal New York, she thinks back over her loves, her family and the society she has left behind.

  • No English yet

    Deutscher Buchpreis 2011 · Shortlist

    Die Schmerzmacherin.

    Title translated by AI:“The Painmaker”

    Marlene Streeruwitz · 61 when first published

    Novel · 398 pages · Crime, Politics

    AI-generated summary:Amy works for a private security firm and can only guess at the corruption and violence behind its secret operations. When she decides to quit, she falls into the hands of a brutal organisation and cannot remember one particular day.