!!!Innerhofer, Franz

Innerhofer, Franz, b.  Krimml bei Salzburg, May 2, 1944, writer. 
As a child he worked at his father's farm, afterwards smithcraft 
apprenticeship, from 1966 attended grammar school for working people, 
then studied German and English language and literature at the 
University of Salzburg; from 1973-1980 he lived as a free-lance 
writer, mostly in Switzerland, afterwards bookseller in Graz. Became 
famous overnight with his first autobiographic novel "Schoene Tage" 
(1974), which describes his difficult childhood. Literary award 
"Rauriser Literaturpreis" in 1975.

!Further works
novels: Schattseite, 1975; Die grossen Woerter, 1977; 
Der Emporkoemmling, 1982; Um die Wette leben, 1993. - Dramas: Orvieto, 
1990; Scheibtruhe, 1992.

!Literature
J. Oberhollenzer, Lebenslaeufe in der Literatur der 70er 
Jahre, doctoral thesis, Innsbruck 1986.


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