Franz Josef Czernin

Franz Josef Czernin was born in Vienna in 1952 and studied in the United States from 1971 to 1973. Beginning in 1978, he published poetry, prose, plays, essays, and aphorisms. His honors include the Heimito von Doderer Literature Prize, the Anton Wildgans Prize, the Georg Trakl Prize, the H. C. Artmann Prize of the City of Vienna, the Austrian State Prize for Literary Criticism, and the Ernst Jandl Prize. His works include elemente, sonette (2002), das labyrinth erst erfindet den roten faden (2005), staub.gefässe (2008), zungenenglisch. visionen, varianten (2014), reisen, auch winterlich (2019), and geliehene zungen (2023).