Actor · Novel · Poem
Born Aug 1, 1925 · Wien, Austria
Active 1989–2000 · Awards: Anton Wildgans Prize, Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature, Georg Büchner Prize, Grand Gold Decoration of Styria, Great Golden Medal of Honour for Services to the Republic of Austria, manuskripte award, Kleist Prize, Kassel Literary Prize
Ernst Jandl was an Austrian writer, poet, and translator. He became known for his experimental lyric, mainly sound poems (Sprechgedichte) in the tradition of concrete and visual poetic forms.