Oswald Egger
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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.
Awards (selection)
Georg Büchner Prize 2024
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...
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Georg Büchner Prize 2024
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
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
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Year of Publication: 2021
Oswald EggerYear of Publication: 2021
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...
Year of Publication: 2017
Oswald EggerYear of Publication: 2017
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....
Year of Publication: 2008
Oswald EggerYear of Publication: 2008
Discreet Continuity
»A mathematician who is not also to some extent a poet will never be a perfect mathematician.« (Karl Weierstraß, mathematician)
Conversely, lyric poet Oswald Egger conducts basic research into the interaction between mathematics and poetry:
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...
Year of Publication: 2003
Oswald EggerYear of Publication: 2003
Heard Herds
»The world – hardly imaginable – is the interieur of speech.« And the hearths of speech aggregate in »preliminary stages of the fusion of processions of images that pass by before the resting eye« a poem of more than 1,000 nine-line stanzas, »stanzas of discreet continuity«. There sleeps Poemander, shepherd of the Hermetica, stoking the fire and...
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