Clemens J. Setz
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- Setz, Clemens J.
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- Date of birth
- 1982-11-15
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- Graz
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Clemens J. Setz (born 15 November 1982, in Graz) is an Austrian writer and translator.
He debuted in 2007 with the novel Söhne und Planeten. His second novel, Die Frequenzen, was shortlisted for the German Book Prize. He won the 2011 Leipzig Book Fair Prize with the short story collection Die Liebe zur Zeit des Mahlstädter Kindes. In 2012 he was again shortlisted for the German Book Prize for the novel Indigo, and in 2015 he received the Wilhelm Raabe Literature Prize for Die Stunde zwischen Frau und Gitarre.
He published literature translations into German of John Leake (Entering Hades), Edward Gorey (The Utter Zoo; The Hapless Child; The Osbick Bird) and Scott McClanahan (Sarah).
In 2020 he was awarded the Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis and the prestigious Kleist Prize, in 2021 the Georg Büchner Prize.
Clemens J. Setz lives and works in Vienna.
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