Writing · Novel · Story
Born Nov 6, 1880 · Klagenfurt, Carinthia, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Active 1940–1942 · Awards: Gerhart Hauptmann prize, Kleist Prize
Robert Mathias Musil was an Austrian philosophical writer of novels, short stories and plays. His unfinished novel, The Man Without Qualities, is generally considered to be one of the most important and influential modernist novels.