Actor
Born Dec 20, 1924
Awards: Anton Wildgans Prize, Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature, Georg Büchner Prize, Ring of Honour of the City of Vienna, manuskripte award, America Award in Literature, Droste-Preis, Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen
Friederike Mayröcker was an Austrian writer of poetry and prose, radio plays, children's books and dramatic texts. She experimented with language, and was regarded as an avant-garde poet, and as one of the leading authors in German.