Nabl, Franz#
b. Loučeń, Czech Republic (then Lautschin), July 16, 1883, d. Graz (Styria), Jan. 19, 1974, writer of narrative prose and dramatist. 1924-1927 worked as a journalist in Graz, in 1934 started his career as a writer, following the 19th century tradition of writing (his style can be compared to that of Stifter). His most successful novel "Oedhof. Bilder aus den Kreisen der Familie Arlet" (1911) describes the fall of a family due to a tyrannical father. Awards: Grand Austrian State Prize 1956, Austrian Decoration for Science and Art 1969.
Edition: Selected Works, ed. by A. Holzinger, 4 vols., 1965.
Literature#
Ueber F. N., ed. by K. Bartsch, G. Melzer and J. Strutz, 1980; B. Noelle, F. N., doctoral thesis, Vienna 1995.