Eva Menasse

Eva Menasse (born May 11, 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, and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.

Eva Menasse
Eva Menasse bei der Verleihung der Carl-Zuckmayer-Medaille an Robert Menasse im Staatstheater Mainz
Born1970  (age 50)
Vienna 
OccupationWriter, journalist 
Spouse(s)Michael Kumpfmüller 
Parent(s)
  • Hans Menasse 
FamilyRobert Menasse 
Awards
  • Mainzer Stadtschreiber (2019)
  • Jonathan Swift Award (2015) 

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.

Menasse was married to the German author Michael Kumpfmüller from 2004–2017.[1]

Awards

Works
  • 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, 2005
  • Lässliche Todsünden, 2009
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References
  • "Goethe Institute - Eva Menasse's novel Vienna". Retrieved 2002-03-13.
Specific
  1. "Eva Menasse - Autorenlexikon". www.literaturport.de.


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