Background
Haushofer was born in Frauenstein in Upper Austria.
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A 1960s Austrian housewife is forced to re-examine her past when pages from old diaries begin to arrive mysteriously in the letter box at her family home. Each day after the windows are clean and the baking is done, she forces herself to read and burn the evidence of her troubled youth. The Loft, published shortly before Haushofer's death in 1970, explores the anatomy of a desiccated marriage, the power of solitude, and the failure of Austrian society in the aftermath of Nazism. Like Haushofer's cult feminist classic The Wall, The Loft is a disturbing and ultimately uplifting tale of alienation, survival, and of finding joy in the strangest of places.
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Growing up in 20s Austria, the tomboy daughter of a forester struggles to comprehend the overwhelming adult world while the impending advent of Nazism threatens to eclipse the traditional life in her family's mountain village. For fans of The Wall, the first ever English translation of Nowhere Ending Sky is not to be missed.
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Haushofer was born in Frauenstein in Upper Austria.
She attended Catholic boarding school in Linz, and went on to study German literature in Vienna, as well as Graz.
After her years in school, she settled in Steyr. I am writing on my novel and everything is very cumbersome because I never have much time and, mainly, because I can not embarrass myself. I must continuously inquire whether what I say about animals and plants is actually correct.
One can not be precise enough.
I would be very happy, indeed, if I were able to write the novel only half as well as I am imagining it in my mind. She commented a year later in a letter to the same friend:
I am extremely industrious.
My novel is completed in its first draft. I have already completed one hundred pages of the rewrite.
Altogether there will be 360 pages.
Writing strains me a great deal and I suffer from headaches. But I hope that I will be finished by the beginning of May (I must allow at least four weeks for the typing)..And the household must keep on running also. All that is very difficult for me because I can only concentrate on one thing and forcing me to be versatile makes me extremely nervous.
I have the feeling as if I were writing into the air.
Her overall addition to Austrian literature, as well as her last short-story collection, Terrible Faithfulness, earned her a Grand Austrian State Prize for literature in 1968. Her last novel, The Attic, was published in 1969, as was her autobiographical account of a childhood, Nowhere Ending Sky.
In 1970, she died of bone cancer at a clinic in Vienna.
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