Karin Peschka

Karin Peschka (born 1967) grew up in Eferding, Upper Austria, as the daughter of an innkeeper and studied at the Social Academy in Linz. She worked with people affected by alcohol addiction and with unemployed young people, as well as in online editing and project organization. Peschka published in anthologies and literary journals and wrote columns for oe1.ORF.at. Her debut novel, “Watschenmann,” was published in 2014 and adapted for the stage at Vienna’s Volkstheater in 2019. The novel received, among other distinctions, the Wartholz Literature Prize, the Floriana Literature Prize and the ALPHA Literature Prize. Her art book “Sterntaler,” created with Michael Hedwig, appeared in 2008. She received the Elias Canetti Fellowship for “FanniPold” in 2015 and 2016.