!!!Mitgutsch, Waltraud Anna

b. Linz (Upper Austria), Oct. 2, 1948, narrative writer, 
essayist. Studied German and English in Salzburg, later research and 
teaching assistant at the University of Innsbruck; long stays in 
Israel, England, Korea and the USA. In her novels she discusses women 
in their social environment. Almost documentary in the description of 
emotional states, M. describes a pathological mother-daughter 
relationship in her often awarded novel "Die Zuechtigung" (1985).

!Further works
Novels: Das andere Gesicht, 1986; Ausgrenzung, 1989; In 
fremden Staedten, 1992; Abschied von Jerusalem, 1995; Haus der 
Kindheit, 2000.

!Literature
U. Fellnhofer-Lamm, Entwurzelungen. Fremdheitserfahrungen 
von Frauen in Werken von A. M., master´s thesis, Vienna 
1997.


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