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Maja Haderlap

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Maja Haderlap

Profile

Gender
Female
Born
1961-03-08 (Eisenkappel-Vellach (Slovene: Železna Kapla-Bela), Carinthia)
Nationality
Austrian
Languages
Slovenian, German
Residence History
Eisenkappel-Vellach → Klagenfurt

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Poet, Editor, Dramaturge
Active Years
1983-2024
Affiliations
Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, Klagenfurt City Theatre
Memberships
Graz's Guild of writers

Education

University of Vienna
Theatre Studies
Degree: PhD
Country: Austria

Awards

Ingeborg Bachmann Prize
2011
Work: Angel of Oblivion
Organization: Bachmannpreis
Result: 受賞
Max Frisch Prize
2018
Organization: City of Zurich
Result: 受賞
PEN Translation Prize
2017
Work: Angel of Oblivion
Organization: PEN America
Result: 受賞
Honorary Doctor
2012
Organization: University of Klagenfurt
Result: 授与
Women's Culture Prize for Literature in the province of Carinthia
2005
Organization: Province of Carinthia
Result: 受賞

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Angel of Oblivion

2011 Novel

A novel about a young girl in Carinthia navigating transgenerational trauma from her Slovene family's resistance against Nazis, treated as traitors by Austrian neighbors.

Transgenerational traumaEthnic minorityAnti-Nazi resistanceLanguage conflict
Adaptations
  • [Theater]
Translations
  • English translation by Tess Lewis (2016)

Bibliography

  • Žalik pesmi, Poems (1983)
  • Bajalice, Poems (1987)
  • Poems - Pesmi - Poems (1989)
  • Deček in sonce (The boy and the sun) (2000)
  • Engel des Vergessens (Angel of Oblivion) (2011)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Bilingual (Slovenian-German)Poetic proseEssayistic
Recurring Motifs
Carinthian Slovene identityOblivion and memoryFamily traumaLegacy of resistance

Legacy

Austrian writer of Slovene descent renowned for novels on ethnic minority trauma, winner of major German-language literary prizes.

Trivia

  • Of Carinthian Slovene minority.
  • Grandmother imprisoned in Ravensbrück.
  • Father tortured by Nazis at age 10.