The author from Merano fascinates with her novels and writings
Sabine Gruber was born in 1963 in Merano and grew up with her parents in Lana. In 1982, after having completed school, she started studying German philology, history and political sciences in Innsbruck and Vienna. From 1988 to 1992 Sabine Gruber was reader at the University of Cá Foscari in Venice.
Since 2000, Sabine Gruber has been living in Vienna as a freelance writer, mainly writing prose, poetry and essays. Her repertoire also includes radio plays, poems and theatre plays. She has been awarded numerous prizes and scholarships, including the renowned ‘Buch.Preis’ literary prize for her work ‘Über Nacht’. Gruber received the Elias Canetti Scholarship from the City of Vienna for her historical novel ‘Stillbach oder Die Sehnsucht’ (2011). The novel was adapted for the theatre by Andreas Jungwirth and premiered at the Communal Theatre of Bolzano on February 21, 2015 (with Krista Posch, Gerti Drassl, Florentin Groll and others in the leading roles). ‘Stillbach oder Die Sehnsucht’ has also been translated into several languages. With ‘Daldossi oder Das Leben des Augenblicks’, she was shortlisted for the Austrian Book Prize in 2016 and ranked number one on the ORF bestseller list three times in a row.
Together with Renate Mumelter she manages the literary estate of the South Tyrolean author Anita Pichler (1948 - 1997). Thanks to their work, anthologies and books have been published on this famous author.
