29^th Leukerbad International Literary Festival

Authors

Anna Weidenholzer

Austria

Anna Weidenholzer was born in Linz in 1984 and now lives in Vienna. She studied comparative literature in Wroclaw and Vienna. Along with being a freelance writer, she has served as the co-curator of the Salzburg Literature Festival since 2023. Her five published books—two story collections and three novels—have won several prizes.
In her writing, Weidenholzer portrays the marginal figures in our society. She writes of chronically unemployed women, old age homes, and Alpine villages. In Hier treibt mein Kartoffelherz (See how my Potato Heart Sprouts), she artfully connects 26 stories—some only a few lines or sentences long, others several pages. She follows the course of the seasons. Her serene, compressed prose reveals an idiosyncratic universe of absurd mundanity which reflect social structures.
Raffael Leitner writes in the Standard: “Anna Weidenholzer’s stories bear witness to the frequent failures of human communication and nonetheless invite us to keep communicating. Polyphony and attentive observation open a path that reveals the many-sidedness of various life realities and calls for the recognition of the other.”

Hier treibt mein Kartoffelherz. Stories. Matthes & Seitz 2025
Finde einem Schwan ein Boot. Novel. Matthes & Seitz 2019
Weshalb die Herren Seesterne tragen. Novel. Matthes & Seitz 2016

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