Gert Jonke

Gert Jonke

Gert Jonke (1946-2009), novelist, poet, musicologist and author of plays, born in Klagenfurt (Austria) and died in Vienna in 2009 it is one of the most original writers that Austria has in the last twenty years as well as one of the most awarded. He received, among others, the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 1977; Elias Canetti's Award in 1982; the Kleist Prize in 2005 for his body of work, and Arthur Schnitzler Prize in 2006 The school of virtuoso, has received albanzas of the best German literary critics, is the first novel published Gert Jonke in Spain.