Austrian literature is mostly written in German, and is closely connected with German literature.
Franz Kafka
Heinrich von dem Tuerlîn: Diu Crône. Heidelberg, UB, cpg 374, 1r.
Georg Trakl
Christoph Ransmayr (Foto: Johannes Cizek)
Adalbert Stifter was an Bohemian-Austrian writer, poet, painter, and pedagogue. He was notable for the vivid natural landscapes depicted in his writing and has long been popular in the German-speaking world, while remaining almost entirely unknown to English readers.
The house where Adalbert Stifter was born in Horní Planá
Amalia Mohaupt
Stifter's study in his Linz house
Portrait of Adalbert Stifter (1863)