Irene Diwiak
Irene Diwiak, born on December 10, 1991 in Graz, grew up in Deutschlandsberg and studied Jewish studies, Slavic studies and comparative literature in Vienna. She has received numerous literary awards, including at the. Jugendliteraturwerkstatt Graz (2005, 2008), FM4-Wortlaut (2013), Theodor-Körner-Förderpreis (2015), jury prize at the author competition of the Nibelungen Festival Worms (2015), promotion prize of the city of Graz (2018). She was also scholarship holder at the Literary Colloquium Berlin (2019), received a literary scholarship of the City of Graz (2020), the Jubilee Fellowship of LiterarMechana (2021), the Scholarship for Drama of the City of Vienna (2022) and the Project Fellowship of the Federal Ministry of Arts and Culture (2022). Her play Die Isländerin premiered in Worms in 2016. Her debut novel Liebwies. was published by Deuticke in 2017 and was on the Shortlist for the Debut Prize of the Austrian Book Award. Her second novel Malvita was published by Zsolnay in September 2020, the same year the opera Elsa (composition: Margareta Ferec-Petric), for which she wrote the libretto, premiered. In 2021 the story collection Guilty Pleasures was published by Edition Kürbis. 2022/23 followed a *Scholarship from the Drehbuchwerkstatt München-Steiermark. In 2023, her third novel Sag Alex, er soll nicht auf mich warten was published by C.Bertelsmann.