Robert Menasse

Robert Menasse (born June 21 1954 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer.

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As an undergraduate, Menasse studied in Vienna, Salzburg and Messina. In 1980 he completed his PhD thesis "Der Typus des Au?enseiters im Literaturbetrieb. Am Beispiel Hermann Sch?rrer" ("The outsider phenotype within literature").

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Between 1981 and 1988 Menasse worked as a junior lecturer at the Institute of Literature Theory at the University of S?o Paulo, Brazil. He has been working as a freelance publicist, columnist and translator of novels from Portuguese into German ever since.

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His first novel Sinnliche Gewissheit, published in 1988, is a semi-autobiographical tale of Austrians living in exile in Brazil.

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The magazine Literatur und Kritik published Menasse's first poem ("Kopfwehmut") in 1989.

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His later novels were Seelige Zeiten, br?chige Welt (1991, translated into English as Wings of Stone ISBN 0714542954), Schubumkehr (1995) and Die Vertreibung aus der H?lle (2001).

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In 1990 Robert Menasse was the first writer to be awarded the Heimito von Doderer Prize. Since returning to Europe from Brazil, Menasse has mainly lived in the cities of Berlin, Vienna and Amsterdam. He currently lives in Vienna and is married.

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Menasse's language is at times playful and at times subtly sarcastic. Recurring themes in his

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novels are loneliness and alienation within human relationships and as a result of his character's lives' circumstances. In his work Menasse often criticises the latent form of antisemitism still widespread in

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the German-speaking world today.

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June 21: June 21 is the 172nd day of the year (173rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar, with 193 days remaining. This day usually marks the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere and the winter solstice in the southern hemisphere, and thus is the day of the year with the longest hours of daylight ...

1954: 1954 was a common year starting on Friday of the Gregorian calendar....

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