Akram Najaf oglu Naibov (Azerbaijani: Əkrəm Nəcəf oğlu Naibov), born on December 6, 1937, is an Azerbaijani writer, playwright, novelist, and former member of parliament. He is better known by his pen name, Akram Aylisli. His books have been translated from Azerbaijani into many languages across the former Soviet Union and other countries.
Stefan Zweig (pronounced ZWYGHE or SWYGHE; German: [ˈʃtɛfan t͡svaɪ̯k] or Austrian German: [t͡svaɪ̯g]; November 28, 1881 – February 22, 1942) was an Austrian writer. During the 1920s and 1930s, he was one of the most popular writers in the world, with his books translated into many languages. He was born into a Jewish family and grew up in Vienna, Austria-Hungary.
Baroness Bertha Sophie Felicitas von Suttner was an Austrian noblewoman, pacifist, and novelist. She was born on June 9, 1843, and died on June 21, 1914. Originally named Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau, she became the second woman to win a Nobel Prize in 1905, following Marie Curie, who won in 1903.
Arthur Schnitzler (German: [ˈʃnɪtslɐ]; 15 May 1862 – 21 October 1931) was an Austrian author and playwright. He is considered one of the most important figures in Viennese Modernism, a movement in Austrian art and literature around the turn of the 20th century. His plays and stories explored the lives of people in Vienna’s middle and upper classes during the early 1900s.
Robert Peter Schneider was born on March 9, 1971. He is an American musician and mathematician. He is the lead singer, songwriter, guitarist, and producer for the rock/pop band the Apples in Stereo.
Moses Joseph Roth (Austrian German: [roːt]; September 2, 1894 – May 27, 1939) was a journalist and novelist from the Austro-Hungarian Empire. He is most famous for his book Radetzky March (1932), which tells the story of the Austro-Hungarian Empire’s decline. He also wrote Job (1930), a novel about Jewish life, and an important essay titled Juden auf Wanderschaft (1927), which describes Jewish people moving from eastern to western Europe after World War I and the Russian Revolution.
Robert Musil (pronounced “moo-sil” or “zil”; in Austrian German, [ˈroːbɛrt ˈmuːzɪl]) was born on November 6, 1880, and died on April 15, 1942. He was an Austrian writer who focused on philosophy. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities (German: Der Mann ohne Eigenschaften), is often considered one of the most important and influential modernist novels.
Elfriede Jelinek (German: [ɛlˈfʁiːdə ˈjɛlinɛk]; born October 20, 1946) is an Austrian writer who creates plays and novels. She is one of the most honored authors who write in German. In 2004, she received the Nobel Prize in Literature for her use of many voices in her work, which shows how society’s common ideas can be harmful and how they control people.
Peter Handke (German: [ˈpeːtɐ ˈhantkə]; born 6 December 1942) is an Austrian writer, playwright, translator, poet, film director, and screenwriter. He received the 2019 Nobel Prize in Literature for his work, which uses creative language to explore the edges and unique aspects of human experiences. Handke is regarded as one of the most important and original writers in the German language during the second half of the 20th century.
Hermann Broch (Austrian German: [brɔx]; November 1, 1886, to May 30, 1951) was an Austrian writer. He is most famous for two important books called The Sleepwalkers (Die Schlafwandler, 1930–32) and The Death of Virgil (Der Tod des Vergil, 1945).