Laura Freudenthaler

Austria
Writer

She made her debut in 2014 with Der Schädel von Madeleine. Her novel Die Königin schweigt (2017) won her the Bremen Literature Prize, and in 2018 it was named best German-language debut novel at the Festival du premier Roman in Chambéry. She received the European Union Prize for Literature for “Geistergeschichte” (2019), her second novel. In 2020, she won the 3sat Prize at the Days of German-Language Literature in Klagenfurt for her text “Der heißeste Sommer”, and in 2021 she was awarded the manuskripte Prize for her work.

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