Gertraud Klemm

Gertraud Klemm, born in Vienna in 1971, grew up in Baden near Vienna and studied biology. Until 2005, she worked as a hygiene assessor for the City of Vienna; she subsequently became a freelance author. She writes novels, plays, essays and journalistic texts. Her literary work has received several scholarships and awards, including the Harder Literature Prize (2012), the Audience Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition (2014), the Outstanding Artist Award for Literature (2020), the Ernst Toller Prize (2021) and the Anton Wildgans Prize (2022). Her novel “Herzmilch” (2014) was shortlisted for the European Union Prize for Literature, while “Aberland” (2015) was nominated for the longlist of the German Book Prize. “Muttergehäuse,” a new edition of her first publication, “Mutter auf Papier,” appeared in 2016.