Friederike Mayrocker (1924-) is the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose as well as radio plays and children's books. Other English editions of her work include Night Train (Ariadne Press, 1992), Heiligenanstalt (Burning Deck, 1994), With Each Clouded Peak (Sun & Moon Press, 1998), and Peck Me Up, My Wing (Smoke-proof Press, 2000), and Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2005 (Carcanet, 2007). She has been honored with many awards including the America Award (1997), George Buchner Prize (2001), Karl Sczuka Radio Play Prize (2001), and Premio Internazionale (2003). Roslyn Theobald is also the translator of Barbara Konig's The Beneficiary (1997) and Our House (1998), and Botho Strauss's The Young Man (1995), Couples, Passerby (1996), and Living Glimmering Lying (1999), all available from Northwestern University Press.

Friederike Mayrocker (1924-) is the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose as well as radio plays and children's books. Other English editions of her work include Night Train (Ariadne Press, 1992), Heiligenanstalt (Burning Deck, 1994), With Each Clouded Peak (Sun & Moon Press, 1998), and Peck Me Up, My Wing (Smoke-proof Press, 2000), and Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2005 (Carcanet, 2007). She has been honored with many awards including the America Award (1997), George Buchner Prize (2001), Karl Sczuka Radio Play Prize (2001), and Premio Internazionale (2003). Roslyn Theobald is also the translator of Barbara Konig's The Beneficiary (1997) and Our House (1998), and Botho Strauss's The Young Man (1995), Couples, Passerby (1996), and Living Glimmering Lying (1999), all available from Northwestern University Press.

Friederike Mayrocker (1924-) is the author of more than fifty books of poetry and prose as well as radio plays and children's books. Other English editions of her work include Night Train (Ariadne Press, 1992), Heiligenanstalt (Burning Deck, 1994), With Each Clouded Peak (Sun & Moon Press, 1998), and Peck Me Up, My Wing (Smoke-proof Press, 2000), and Raving Language: Selected Poems 1946-2005 (Carcanet, 2007). She has been honored with many awards including the America Award (1997), George Buchner Prize (2001), Karl Sczuka Radio Play Prize (2001), and Premio Internazionale (2003). Roslyn Theobald is also the translator of Barbara Konig's The Beneficiary (1997) and Our House (1998), and Botho Strauss's The Young Man (1995), Couples, Passerby (1996), and Living Glimmering Lying (1999), all available from Northwestern University Press.