# List of Austrian writers

This is a list of Austrian writers, including poets.
* Top
* 0–9
* A
* B
* C
* D
* E
* F
* G
* H
* I
* J
* K
* L
* M
* N
* O
* P
* Q
* R
* S
* T
* U
* V
* W
* X
* Y
* Z

## A

* Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), writer
* Peter Altenberg (1859–1910), writer and poet
* Jean Améry (1912–1978), writer
* Ernst Angel (1894–1986), writer, poet and psychologist
* Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), writer
* H. C. Artmann (1921–2000), poet and writer

## B

* Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), poet
* Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), playwright, novelist
* Christoph W. Bauer (1968– ), novelist
* Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890), dramatist
* Johann Beer (17th century), writer and composer
* Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), dramatist, novelist, poet, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
* Edmund Blum (1874–1938)
* Hermann Broch (1886–1951), writer
* Max Brod (1884–1968), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, wrote in German

## C

* Elias Canetti (1905–1994), writer (born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria), wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
* Veza Canetti (1897–1963) poet, playwright, and short story writer
* Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900–1978), literary critic and foremost historian of Literature
* Paul Celan (1920–1970), poet (born in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary), wrote in German
* Ada Christen (1839–1901), poet, short story writer, and writer of sketches

## D

* Robert Dassanowsky (1965–2023), Austrian-American poet
* Michael Denis (1729–1800), poet
* Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), writer, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna
* Milo Dor (1923–2005), Austrian writer of Serbian origin

## E

* Klaus Ebner (born 1964), writer, born in Vienna
* Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), writer (style: psychological novelist)
* Gustav Ernst (born 1944), playwright and novelist

## F

* Lilian Faschinger (born 1950), novelist, poet, and literary translator
* Franzobel (born 1967) (real name: Stefan Griebl), writer
* Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), philosopher, psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis
* Alfred Fried (1864–1921), writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
* Erich Fried (1921–1988), poet and novelist
* Egon Friedell (1878–1938), author, journalist and actor
* Marianne Fritz (1948–2007), writer and novelist

## G

* Karl-Markus Gauß (born 1954), essayist, Salzburg
* Karin Gayer (born 1969), writer, Mödling and Vienna
* Thomas Glavinic (born 1972), writer, Graz
* Heinrich Glücksmann (1864–1947), writer
* Constantin Göttfert (born 1979), writer
* Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), dramatist, Vienna

## H

* Wolf Haas (born 1960), writer best known for his Brenner novels
* Friedrich Halm (1806–1871)
* Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), poet
* Peter Handke (born 1942), author, born in Griffen (Carinthia)
* Josef Haslinger (born 1955), writer
* Friedrich Heer (1916–1983), historian and writer, Vienna
* Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), writer and traveller
* Fritz Hochwälder (1911–1986), playwright
* Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), dramatist, writer
* Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938), writer, born in Fiume (today Rijeka), Austria-Hungary

## J

* Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), experimental lyric
* Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature

## K

* Eugenie Kain (1960–2010), writer, born in Linz, wrote in German
* Franz Kafka (1883–1924), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
* Ernst Kein (1928-1985), writer, born in Vienna, wrote in German
* Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer (born 1936), novelist, poet
* Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
* Werner Kofler (1947–2011), novelist
* Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
* Karl Kraus (1874–1936), essayist, poet, dramatist
* Anton Kuh (1890–1941), writer and journalist

## L

* Minna Lachs (1907–1993), educator and memoirist
* Ann Tizia Leitich (1896–1976), writer and journalist
* Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897–1976), novelist, poet, playwright
* Nikolaus Lenau (1802–1850), poet
* Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966), poet
* Mira Lobe (1913–1995), children's literature writer
* Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989)

## M

* Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938), writer and suffragette
* Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021), contemporary writer
* Robert Menasse (born 1954), writer and publicist
* Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), writer
* Frederic Morton (1924–2015), journalist and novelist
* Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, known as Friedrich Halm (1806–1871), writer and dramatist
* Robert Musil (1880–1942), writer

## N

* Günther Nenning (1921–2006), journalist
* Johann Nestroy (1801–1862), playwright
* Christine Nöstlinger (1936–2018), writer (especially literature for children)

## O

* Andreas Okopenko (1930–2010) , writer

## P

* Katharina Prato (1818–1897), cookbook writer
* Leo Perutz (1882–1957), writer
* Andreas P. Pittler (born 1964), writer
* Thomas Pollan (born 1971)
* Ursula Poznanski (born 1968), writer

## R

* Doron Rabinovici (born 1961), Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist
* Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836), writer and dramatist
* Christoph Ransmayr (born 1954), writer
* Elisabeth Reichert (born 1953), writer
* Neidhart von Reuental (c. 1190 – c. 1240), writer and poet 13th century
* Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), poet and novelist
* Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), writer
* Joseph Roth (1894–1939), writer (Radetzkymarsch)

## S

* Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906), dramatist and writer
* Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836–1895), writer and journalist
* Hamid Sadr (born 1946), author from Iran
* Felix Salten (1869–1945), Jewish writer (most famous work Bambi)
* Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), writer
* Barbara Schurz (born 1973), writer and painter
* Werner Schwab (1958–1994), playwright
* Erich Fritz Schweinburg (1890–1959), writer
* Robert Seethaler (born 1966), writer and actor
* Hans Werner Sokop (born 1942), poet and translator
* Jura Soyfer (1912–1933), cabaret writer and political journalist, lived in Vienna
* Manès Sperber (1905–1984), Austrian-French writer, philosopher and psychologist
* Fritz Spiegl (1926–2003), journalist
* Walter Johannes Stein (1891–1957), historian
* Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), writer and philosopher
* Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), poet and artist
* Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), Nobel Peace Prize winner

## T

* Franziska Tausig (1895–1989), Holocaust survivor and memoirist
* Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), narrative writer, essayist, script author, born in Vienna
* Georg Trakl (1887–1914), poet

## V

* Hannelore Valencak (1929–2004), novelist, poet, children's writer

## W

* Franz Werfel (1890–1945), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
* Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher
* Alma Wittlin (1899–1992), historian
* Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376–1445), writer and composer

## Z

* Joseph Christian, Baron von Zedlitz (1790–1862), dramatist and poet
* Birgit Zotz (born 1979), writer and anthropologist
* Volker Zotz, writer and philosopher
* Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer, born in Vienna