Oswald Egger
Born in Lana, South Tyrol, in 1963, Egger now lives in Vienna. He has been awarded several literary prizes, including the Peter Huchel Prize in 2007.
Born in Lana, South Tyrol, in 1963, Egger now lives in Vienna. He has been awarded several literary prizes, including the Peter Huchel Prize in 2007.
Robert Musil Fellowship 2020
Ernst Jandl Prize 2019
Longlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2017
Georg Trakl Prize 2017
outstanding artist award for literature 2014
Karl Sczuka Prize 2013
Villa Massimo Fellowship 2014
Karl Sczuka Prize 2010
Oskar Pastior Prize 2010
H.C. Artmann Prize 2008
Peter Huchel Prize 2007
Christian Wagner Prize 2006
Writer in Residence, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2001
Clemens...
Robert Musil Fellowship 2020
Ernst Jandl Prize 2019
Longlisted for the Austrian Book Prize 2017
Georg Trakl Prize 2017
outstanding artist award for literature 2014
Karl Sczuka Prize 2013
Villa Massimo Fellowship 2014
Karl Sczuka Prize 2010
Oskar Pastior Prize 2010
H.C. Artmann Prize 2008
Peter Huchel Prize 2007
Christian Wagner Prize 2006
Writer in Residence, Villa Aurora, Los Angeles 2001
Clemens Brentano Prize for Poetry 2000
PUBLICATIONS
Oskar Fiala and the Principle of the Smallest Effect
Either I Only Dreamt the Journey Along the Mississippi Or I’m Dreaming Now
Does everything flow? Like a progressively osculating billowing jumble in the form of words and forms without words, swirlings, dispersions and clusters of waves of reveries breaking in on themselves, flowing past the riverbanks of an internal landscape.
As though they were relational lines in the »stream of consciousness«, lines that touch, liaise, intersect, overlap only to lose...
Val di Non
Can you imagine a mountain without its corresponding valley? If you can imagine both God and the world, can you manage to imagine, for example, God without the world? That which hovers before your mind’s eye, from A to Z, often appears more real than what’s confusingly in front of you.
Once upon a time mountains were mountains and valleys were valleys....
Discreet Continuity
Conversely, lyric poet Oswald Egger conducts basic research into the interaction between mathematics and poetry:
He grasps both as related manners of thinking, darts in his short articles »with cheerful seriousness« between...
