!!!Winkler, Josef

b. Kamering (Carinthia), March 3, 1953, novelist. In his major work 
"Das wilde Kaernten" (3 vols., "Menschenkind", 1979; "Der 
Ackermann aus Kaernten", 1980; "Muttersprache", 1982) he describes his 
harsh childhood and youth and the domination of a child's imagination 
by Catholicism in metaphorical and ecstatic language. Ingeborg 
Bachmann Prize in 1973.

!Further works
Die Verschleppung, 1983; Der Leibeigene, 1987; Friedhof 
der bitteren Orangen, 1990; Das Zoeglingsheft des J. Genet, 1992; 
Domra, 1996; Wenn es soweit ist, 1998.

!Literature
D. Linck, Halbweib und Maskenbildung, 1993; G. A. 
Hoefler (ed.), J. W., 1998; R. Jobstmann, J. W. zw. den 
(literarischen) Welten, doctoral thesis, Vienna 1999.


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