Maja Haderlap

Born into the Slovenian-speaking minority of Carinthia, Austria, Maja Haderlap writes poetry, libretti and fiction in Slovenian and in German. She was awarded the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Prize and the Rauriser Literaturpreis for her novel Engel des Vergessens, published in Tess Lewis’s translation as Angel of Oblivion (2016).. In 2019, she was awarded the Austrian Arts Prize for Literature and in 2021, the Christine Lavant Prize.