Maja Haderlap

Maja Haderlap (born 1961) is an Austrian writer and member of the Slovenian minority in Carinthia. After studying theatre studies and German language and literature at the University of Vienna, she worked as a dramaturgy assistant, programme editor and lecturer at the Institute for Comparative Literature at the Alpen-Adria-Universität Klagenfurt, as well as chief dramaturge at the Stadttheater Klagenfurt.

In 2011, she won the Ingeborg Bachmann Prize with the poetic text Im Kessel (In the Cauldron), an excerpt from her debut novel Engel des Vergessens (Angel of Oblivion), which deals with the resistance of the Carinthian Slovenes against the German Wehrmacht. 

Haderlap writes poetry, prose and essays in Slovenian and German. Her texts are published in many languages and have won numerous awards. She is a member of the German Academy for Language and Literature in Darmstadt and a corresponding member of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts in Ljubljana.