The Maiden
Monika Helfer has transformed her memories into major literature
On the suffocating atmosphere of the 1960s – on marriage, intimacy and belonging
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Monika Helfer
Monika Helfer, born in 1947 in Au/Bregenzerwald, is a writer and lives with her family in Vorarlberg. She has published numerous novels, stories and children’s books. Her work has won the Austrian Literature Prize, the Solothurn Literature Prize and the Johann Peter Hebel Prize, among others. For Die Bagage (novel, 2020), she received the Schubart Literature Prize 2021 from the City of Aalen. Her most recent publications by Hanser are the novels Vati (2021) and Löwenherz (2022)
Lionheart
Monika Helfer turns her life experiences into literature. After Die Bagage and Vati: the new novel about a family from the Austrian Vorarlberg. Lionheart is an intimate portrait, a story about ...
moreDaddy
“We called him Daddy. That’s what he wanted. He thought it sounded modern.”
Monika Helfer continues the tale she began in The Riff-Raff – the one of her family. Daddy is a ...
The Riff-Raff
This novel is a powerful and poignant portrait of a woman and mother at the beginning of the twentieth century. Monika Helfer tells the story of her own origins, of a family that is only ever ...
moreTwo Women Waiting for their Chance
One novel, two authors: a story of friendship and growing old; a tale of tears and laughter. A travesty of comic melancholy – a masked ball.
Two women writers get together after a ...
The Open-Air Bar.
Monika Helfer’s short stories transport the reader to a world full of magic and poetry.Here’s Carolin for example, a stylish redhead who is fed up with sleeping alone in her big double bed. ...
moreOskar and Lilli
They have no father and their mother is not up to taking care of them, so Oskar, 7, and Lilli, 9, run away from home. Before long, they are picked up by the police. Their mother is admitted to a ...
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