Literature and books : New Books

Schnitzler’s Hidden Manuscripts

2 December 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Book launch and lecture with Dr Lorenzo Bellettini Arthur Schnitzler (1862 – 1931) lived in an epoch of profound changes, from the birth of psychoanalysis and modernism in the arts, to the rise of anti-Semitism, the ...

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BBC Music in the Glock Era and After. Published by Plumbago Books (London)

22 April 2010, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

With author Leo Black, editor Christopher Wintle, illustrator Milein Cosman and a special performance by Daniela Lehner, mezzo soprano, with Oliver Davies, piano. The BBC of the 1960s, a formative time in the evolution of ...

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Best European Fiction 2010

20 January 2010, 7.45pm

Marking the publication of a new anthology entitled Best European Fiction 2010, which brings together newly translated stories from 32 European nations including Austrian writer Antonio Fian, this 2-part program at London’s South Bank ...

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The System of Vienna by Gert Jonke

5 January 2010

An astonishing and fantastical auto biographical novel, The System of Vienna (Das System von Wien), details Gert Jonke’s travels through Vienna by tram, reporting the bizarre and frustrating encounters he experiences as he progresses ...

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Interwar Vienna. Culture between Tradition and Modernity. Book presentation

24 November 2009, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

Edited by Deborah Holmes and Lisa Silverman Although beset by social, political, and economic instabilities, interwar Vienna was an exhilarating place, with pioneering developments in the arts and innovations in the social sphere. This volume ...

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In A Silent Way – A Portrait of Joe Zawinul by Brian Glasser

7 July 2009, 7.00pm | Austrian Cultural Forum London

With musical guests: radio.string.quartet.vienna Joe Zawinul (1932–2007) was probably one of the most important figures in European jazz history. He worked with many famous jazz musicians including Ben Webster and Dinah ...

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News

Opening of “Salzburg Literary Archives”

The “Salzburg Literary Archives” – a literary-historical research centre of the University, the City and the Land of Salzburg – were formally opened on 19 April 2012. They collect and investigate living and posthumous estates of authors, such as Barbara Frischmuth, Peter Handke, Gert Jonke and Stefan Zweig, with ties to Salzburg and make them available for academic research.

English PEN Launches Major New fund for Literary Translation

English PEN, the charity promoting the freedom to write, is launching a major new fund for literary translation. Click here to find out more!

Austrian government awards, grants and subsidies for translation

With a view to promoting (Austrian or foreign) translators or the translation of Austrian contemporary literature, subsidies, grants and awards are available from the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Arts and Culture. Click here for more information.