Eva Menasse (born 11 May 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna,[1] and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.
In 2005, she received the Corine Literature Prize. The English translation of her novel Vienna was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK.
Books in order of publication (In English and German):
Die letzte Märchenprinzessin, (with Elisabeth and Robert Menasse), 1997
Klein Menasses der mächtigste Mann, (with Elisabeth and Robert Menasse), 1998
Der Holocaust vor Gericht. Der Prozess um David Irving, 2000
Vienna, novel, 2005 (English: Vienna, translated by Anthea Bell, 2006)
Lässliche Todsünden, short stories, 2009
Quasikristalle, novel, 2013
Lieber aufgeregt als abgeklärt, essays, 2015
Tiere für Fortgeschrittene, short stories, 2017
Gedankenspiele über den Kompromiss, essay, 2020
Geborgen am Busen der Musen. Früher oder später bekommt das Museum uns alle, essay, 2020
Dunkelblum, novel, 2021 (English, Darkenbloom, translated by Charlotte Collins, 2025)
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