List of Austrian writers
This is a list of Austrian writers, including poets.
A
- Ilse Aichinger, writer
- Peter Altenberg, writer and poet
- Jean Améry, writer
- Ernst Angel, writer, poet and psychologist
- Ludwig Anzengruber, writer
- H. C. Artmann, poet and writer
B
- Ingeborg Bachmann, poet
- Hermann Bahr, playwright, novelist
- Christoph W. Bauer, novelist
- Eduard von Bauernfeld, dramatist
- Konrad Bayer, writer and poet
- Johann Beer, writer and composer
- Thomas Bernhard, dramatist, novelist, poet, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
- Edmund Blum
- Hermann Broch, writer
- Max Brod, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, wrote in German
C
- Elias Canetti, writer, wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
- Veza Canetti poet, playwright, and short story writer
- Otto Maria Carpeaux, literary critic and foremost historian of Literature
- Paul Celan, poet, wrote in German
- Ada Christen, poet, short story writer, and writer of sketches
D
- Robert Dassanowsky, Austrian-American poet
- Michael Denis, poet
- Heimito von Doderer, writer, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna
- Milo Dor, Austrian writer of Serbian origin
- Albert Drach, novelist, playwright, memoirist
E
- Klaus Ebner, writer, born in Vienna
- Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer
- Gustav Ernst, playwright and novelist
F
- Lilian Faschinger, novelist, poet, and literary translator
- Franzobel , writer
- Sigmund Freud, philosopher, psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis
- Alfred Fried, writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
- Erich Fried, poet and novelist
- Egon Friedell, author, journalist and actor
- Marianne Fritz, writer and novelist
G
- Karl-Markus Gauß, essayist, Salzburg
- Karin Gayer, writer, Mödling and Vienna
- Thomas Glavinic, writer, Graz
- Heinrich Glücksmann, writer
- Constantin Göttfert, writer
- Franz Grillparzer, dramatist, Vienna
H
- Wolf Haas, writer best known for his Brenner novels
- Eligius [Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen|Friedrich Halm]
- Robert Hamerling, poet
- Peter Handke, author, born in Griffen
- Josef Haslinger, writer
- Marlen Haushofer, writer
- Friedrich Heer, historian and writer, Vienna
- Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, writer and traveller
- Fritz Hochwälder, playwright
- Hugo von Hofmannsthal, dramatist, writer
- Ödön von Horváth, writer, born in Fiume, Austria-Hungary
J
- Ernst Jandl, experimental lyric
- Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature
K
- Eugenie Kain, writer, born in Linz, wrote in German
- Franz Kafka, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
- Ernst Kein, writer, born in Vienna, wrote in German
- Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer, novelist, poet
- Egon Erwin Kisch, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
- Werner Kofler, novelist
- Ludwig von Köchel, writer, composer, botanist, music historian
- Karl Kraus, essayist, poet, dramatist
- Hertha Kräftner, essayist, poet and storyteller, born in Vienna, wrote in German
- Anton Kuh, writer and journalist
L
- Minna Lachs, educator and memoirist
- Ann Tizia Leitich, writer and journalist
- Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, playwright
- Nikolaus Lenau, poet
- Cvetka Lipuš, poet
- Mira Lobe, children's literature writer
- Konrad Lorenz
M
- Rosa Mayreder, writer and suffragette
- Friederike Mayröcker, contemporary writer
- Robert Menasse, writer and publicist
- Gustav Meyrink, writer
- Anna Mitgutsch, writer
- Frederic Morton, journalist and novelist
- Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, known as Friedrich Halm, writer and dramatist
- Robert Musil, writer
N
- Günther Nenning, journalist
- Johann Nestroy, playwright
- Christine Nöstlinger, writer
O
- Andreas Okopenko, writer
P
- Katharina Prato, cookbook writer
- Leo Perutz, writer
- Andreas P. Pittler, writer
- Thomas Pollan
- Ursula Poznanski, writer
R
- Doron Rabinovici, Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist
- Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist
- Christoph Ransmayr, writer
- Elisabeth Reichert, writer
- Neidhart von Reuental, writer and poet 13th century
- Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist
- Peter Rosegger, writer
- Joseph Roth, writer
S
- Ferdinand von Saar, dramatist and writer
- Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer and journalist
- Hamid Sadr, author from Iran
- Felix Salten, Jewish writer
- Arthur Schnitzler, writer
- Barbara Schurz, writer and painter
- Werner Schwab, playwright
- Erich Fritz Schweinburg, writer
- Robert Seethaler, writer and actor
- Hans Werner Sokop, poet and translator
- Jura Soyfer, cabaret writer and political journalist, lived in Vienna
- Manès Sperber, Austrian-French writer, philosopher and psychologist
- Fritz Spiegl, journalist
- Walter Johannes Stein, historian
- Rudolf Steiner, writer and philosopher
- Adalbert Stifter, poet and artist
- Bertha von Suttner, Nobel Peace Prize winner
T
- Franziska Tausig, Holocaust survivor and memoirist
- Friedrich Torberg, narrative writer, essayist, script author, born in Vienna
- Georg Trakl, poet
V
- Hannelore Valencak, novelist, poet, children's writer
W
- Franz Werfel, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
- Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
- Alma Wittlin, historian
- Oswald von Wolkenstein, writer and composer
Z
- Joseph Christian, Baron von Zedlitz, dramatist and poet
- Birgit Zotz, writer and anthropologist
- Volker Zotz, writer and philosopher
- Stefan Zweig, writer, born in Vienna