Ilse Aichinger

Ilse Aichinger

November 01, 1921 – November 11, 2016
Countries: Austria
Place of Birth: Vienna, Austria
Place of Death: Vienna, Austria

Ilse Aichinger (1 November 1921 – 11 November 2016) was an Austrian writer known for her accounts of her persecution by the Nazis because of her Jewish ancestry. She wrote poems, short stories and radio plays, and won multiple European literary prizes.