She holds a PhD in Theatre Studies from
University of Vienna and has worked at the
Alpen-Adria-Universität in
Klagenfurt. She was editor for many years of the Carinthian Slovene minority literary magazine 'Mladje' and wrote poetry, prose, and essays in both Slovenian and German. Her work has been published in numerous German and international literary journals and anthologies. From 1992 to 2007, she worked as
dramaturge at the
Klagenfurt City Theatre. She is the most awarded member of the
Graz's Guild of writers and lives in Klagenfurt.
Angel of Oblivion Winning one of the most important awards for literature in the German language, the
Ingeborg Bachmann Prize in 2011, and the
Max Frisch Prize of the City of
Zurich in 2018, her most notable novel was made into a drama and put on theater stages. The story is told from a point of view of a young girl, growing up in the late-1960s or early-1970s in the Austrian province of Carinthia, learning to navigate the terrain between Slovenian, a language of the past anti-Nazi resistance and present humiliation, and German, an escape from being treated as traitor by her German-speaking Austrian neighbors. == Books ==