Maja Haderlap

Maja Haderlap
Maja Haderlap (2012)
Born (1961-03-08) March 8, 1961
Eisenkappel-Vellach (Slovene: Železna Kapla-Bela), Carinthia
Occupation Novelist, Poet
Nationality Austrian
Alma mater University of Vienna, Austria
Period 1983 to present
Genre Novel, Poetry
Notable works Engel des Vergessens

Maja Haderlap (born 8 March 1961 in Eisenkappel-Vellach (Slovene: Železna Kapla-Bela), Carinthia) is a bilingual Slovenian-German Austrian writer, best known for her award-winning novel Angel of Forgetting, highlighting the Austria's only militarily organized resistance against National Socialism - the Carinthian minority of Carinthian Slovenes as one of the non-Jewish Holocaust's victims.[1]

She studied German language and literature at University of Vienna and has PhD in Theatre Studies.

Life and work

After her graduation she worked as assistant dramaturg, as a program editor and a lecturer at the Institute for Comparative Literary Studies at the Alpen-Adria-Universität in Klagenfurt. Between years 1992 and 2007 she worked as drama supervisor at the Klagenfurt City Theatre under the direction of Dietmar Pflegerl.

Maja Haderlap is considered the most lyrical voice among Slovenian Austrians since her first book of poems 'Zalik pesmi' (1983).

She was editor of many years of Carinthian Slovene minority literary magazine 'Mladje'. She writes poetry, prose and essays in both Slovenian and German. Her work has been published in numerous German and international literary journals and anthologies. Maja Haderlap is a member of the Graz's Guild of writers and lives in Klagenfurt.

Books

  • Žalik pesmi, Poems (1983)
  • Bajalice, Poems (1987)
  • Poems - Pesmi - Poems (1989)
  • Deček in sonce (The boy and the sun), zadruga Novi Matajur, Cividale and Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Založba Drava 2000 ISBN 3-85435-330-8
  • Between Politics and Culture
  • The city of Klagenfurt Theatre from 1992 to 2007. The era Pflegerl Dietmar (2007)
  • Engel des Vergessens (Angel of Oblivion), Wallstein, Göttingen, 2011 ISBN 978-3-8353-0953-1

Awards

  • 1983: Promotion Award of Carinthia
  • 1989: Award of Prešeren Foundation
  • 2004: Hubert Burda Prize as part of the Hermann-Lenz Prize
  • 2005: Women's Culture Prize for Literature in the province of Carinthia
  • 2006/2007: Austrian State Scholarship for Literature
  • 2011: Ingeborg Bachmann Prize for the novel "Angel of Oblivion"
  • 2012: Writer in residence in one world foundation in Sri Lanka[2]

References

  1. ↑ Angel pozabe je postal moja pripoved, Pogledi, 25. 10. 2011
  2. ↑ Cf. owf.at: writer in residence
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