Writing · Novel · Theatre Play · Writer
Born Feb 9, 1931 · Heerlen, Netherlands
Active 1971–1989 · Awards: Anton Wildgans Prize, Georg Büchner Prize, Prix Médicis étranger, Feltrinelli Prize, Franz-Grillparzer-Preis, Grimme-Preis, Literaturpreis der Stadt Bremen, Austrian Promotional Prize for Literature
Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard was an Austrian novelist, playwright, poet and polemicist who is considered one of the most important German-language authors of the postwar era.