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JOHANNA SEBAUER

Johanna Sebauer was born in Vienna in 1988 and raised in a small Burgenland village close to the Hungarian border. She studied political science and journalism in Vienna, Aarhus, Santiago de Chile and Hamburg. Her short stories have been published in numerous anthologies. She received the 2020 Austrian Ministry for Culture’s ‘Startstipendium’ and the 2021 Hamburg Department of Culture Future grant to work on her novel, Nincshof. A first draft of the novel was awarded the 2019 Burgenland Literature Prize. With her Debut she won The Harbour Front Literature Festival Debut Prize 2023; 3-SAT-Price and audience-award at the Ingeborg-Bachmann-Price 2024 for an unpublished text.

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