{{Short description|Austrian poet (1915–1987)}} {{See also|Busta (surname)}} {{Multiple issues| {{Expand German|topic=bio|Christine Busta|date=December 2009}} {{one source|date=December 2009}} }}
'''Christine Busta''' (23 April 1915, Vienna, Austria – 3 December 1987, Vienna) was an Austrian poet and children's writer.
In her work, she stood for an undogmatic Catholicism.
==Awards and honours== * 1950 Promotion Prize for Literature * 1954 Georg Trakl Prize * 1961 Promotion Prize for Literature * 1963 Droste Prize * 1964 Literary Prize of the City of Vienna * 1969 Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature * 1975 Anton Wildgans Prize * 1980 Honorary Medal of the capital Vienna in gold * 1980 Austrian Medal for Science and Art<ref>{{cite web | url = http://www.parlament.gv.at/PAKT/VHG/XXIV/AB/AB_10542/imfname_251156.pdf | title = Reply to a parliamentary question | language = German | page=562 |trans-title=| accessdate = 28 December 2012 }}</ref> * 1981 Theodor Körner Prize
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