!!!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.

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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.



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