!!!Giese, Alexander

Giese, Alexander, b. Vienna, Nov. 21, 1921, poet, narrative 
writer. Author of film scripts and radio plays. From 1967 to 1983 
department head at the Austrian broadcasting corporation (ORF), from 
1990 to 1997 president of the Austrian PEN Centre in Vienna.  P. E. N. 
Club. Wrote several successful novels based on cultural and 
intellectual history.

!Works
Novels: Wie ein Fremder im Vaterland (Mark Aurel), 1975; Wie 
Schnee in der Wueste (Omar Khajjam), 1976; Geduldet euch, Brueder, 
1979; Lerida oder Der lange Schatten, 1983; Licht der Freiheit, 1993. 
- Zwischen Graesern der Mond, 1963 (poetry).


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