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Place of Birth: Steyr, Upper Austria, Austria
About Erich Hackl
- Erich Hackl (born 26 May 1954 in Steyr, Upper Austria) is an Austrian novelist and short-story writer.
- His works have been translated into English, Spanish, French and Czech, though he is significantly better known in the German-speaking world.
- Many of his works, notably Sara und SimĂłn, bear resemblance to Latin-American testimonial literature, and as such have been the focus of scholarly research by Latin Americanists. His work has also been well received in the UK.
- A review in The Times Literary Supplement called The Wedding in Auschwitz “an exceptional book” because the author “has chosen not to conceal the documentary origins of his novel.
- Rather than producing a researched-based fictionalized account, honouring history and abiding by the literary conventions, he has given himself entirely to the subject … a remarkable suppression of the authorial ego … Hackl does not impose a novelist’s order … and yet the tension of the story never fails, interest never wanes.
- This is because Hackl understands that any ambiguity about detail is in contrast to an unshakeable sense of inevitability, and his narrative exploits what every reader must know: there will be no happy endings.”
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