Franz Schuh (writer)

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Franz Schuh (born March 15, 1947) is an Austrian novelist, literary critic and, above all, essayist in the tradition of Karl Kraus and Alfred Polgar. Schuh was born, and lives, in Vienna, where, just like his predecessors, he prefers to write in one of the traditional coffeehouses.

[edit] Select bibliography

• Liebe, Macht und Heiterkeit (1985)
• Landnahme. Der österreichische Roman nach 1980 (1989)
• Schreibkräfte. Über Literatur, Glück und Unglück (2000)
• Der Stadtrat. Eine Idylle (2000)
• Schwere Vorwürfe, schmutzige Wäsche (Heavy Reproaches, Dirty Linen) (Leipzig Book Fair Prize, 2006).

Schuh also edited the Peter-Henisch-Reader Figurenwerfen (2003).

[edit] External links

• Biography in the aeiou Encyclopedia
• Biography from the University of Graz web site (in German)
• Leipzig Book Fair Prizes 2006