{{Short description|Austrian writer (born 1959)}} {{Use dmy dates|date=April 2026}} {{Infobox writer | name = Alois Hotschnig | image = Alois Hotschnig - Buch Wien 2025.JPG | imagesize = 220px | caption = Alois Hotschnig at the Vienna Book Fair 2025 | birth_name = | pseudonym = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1959|10|03|df=y}} | birth_place = Berg im Drautal,<br />Carinthia, Austria | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = Writer | nationality = Austrian | genre = Fiction | signature = | notableworks = ''Leonardo's Hands'' | spouse = | children = }}
'''Alois Hotschnig''' (born 3 October 1959) is an Austrian writer, whose stories have been described as having "the weird, creepy, and ambiguous quality of disturbing dreams".<ref name="lezard">{{cite news|last=Lezard |first=Nicholas |author-link=Nicholas Lezard |title=Maybe This Time by Alois Hotschnig |newspaper=The Guardian |date=14 December 2011 |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2011/aug/25/maybe-this-time-alois-hotschnig-review |access-date=27 August 2011}}</ref> He first studied medicine, then German and English in Innsbruck.<ref name="rowohlt-Theaterverlag">{{cite web | title=rowohlt-Theaterverlag :: Hotschnig, Alois | website=rowohlt-Theaterverlag | url=https://rowohlt-theaterverlag.de/tvalias/autor/71949 | language=de | access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref><ref name="internationales literaturfestival berlin">{{cite web | title=Alois Hotschnig | website=internationales literaturfestival berlin | url=https://www.literaturfestival.com/autoren/autoren-2010/alois-hotschnig | language=de | access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref> He was winner of the Erich Fried Prize in 2008, the Anton Wildgans Prize in 2009, and shortlisted for the Jan Michalski Prize for Literature in 2010.<ref name="orawww.uibk.ac.at 2009" /><ref name="internationales literaturfestival berlin" /> He lives as a freelance author in Innsbruck.<ref name="orawww.uibk.ac.at 2009">{{cite web | title=Alois Hotschnig | website=orawww.uibk.ac.at | date=2 February 2009 | url=https://orawww.uibk.ac.at/apex/uprod/f?p=TLL:2:0::::P2_ID:286 | language=de | access-date=14 August 2021}}</ref>
==Works== * {{cite book|title=Aus |publisher=Luchterhand Literaturverlag |location=Frankfurt |year=1989 |language=de |isbn=978-3-63086-692-5}} * {{cite book|title=Eine Art Glück |publisher=Luchterhand Literaturverlag |location=Frankfurt |year=1990 |language=de |isbn=978-3-85218-935-2}} * {{cite book|title=Leonardos Hände |publisher=Luchterhand Literaturverlag |location=Hamburg |year=1992 |language=de |isbn=978-3-63086-794-6}} * {{cite book|title=Absolution |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Köln |year=1994 |language=de |isbn=978-3-46202-358-9}} * {{cite book |translator=Peter Filkins |title=Leonardo's Hands |publisher=University of Nebraska Press |location=Lincoln |year=1999 |language=en |isbn=978-0-80322-387-5 |url-access=registration |url=https://archive.org/details/leonardoshandsle0000hots }} * {{cite book|title=Ludwigs Zimmer |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Köln |year=2000 |language=de |isbn=978-3-44272-898-5}} * {{cite book|title=Die Kinder beruhigte das nicht |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Köln |year=2006 |language=de |isbn=978-3-46203-685-5}} * {{cite book|title=In Sitzen läuft es sich besser davon |publisher=Kiepenheuer & Witsch |location=Köln |year=2009 |language=de |isbn=978-3-46204-137-8}} * {{cite book|title=Midi, soir et matin |publisher=Maren Sell |year=2009 |language=fr |isbn=978-2-35580-082-5}} * {{cite book|translator=Tess Lewis|title=Maybe This Time |publisher=Peirene Press |location=London |year=2011 |isbn=978-0-95628-405-1}} * {{cite book|translator=Tess Lewis|title=Ludwig's Room |publisher=Seagull Books |location=Chicago |year=2014 |isbn=978-0-85742-204-0}}
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==External links== * {{cite web|title=Alois Hotschnig |publisher=International Literature Festival Berlin |url=http://www.literaturfestival.com/participants/authors/2010/alois-hotschnig}}
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