Susanna Kubelka

Background

She was born in September 1942 in Linz (Austria).

Education

In 1977 she took a Doctor of Philosophy with a thesis on the way women were represented in the 18th-century English novel.

Career

Having left high school she briefly worked as primary school teacher before graduating in English literature. Later she worked as a journalist for the Vienna newspaper Die Presse. She lived and worked in Australia and in England for four years.

She claims to favour a vegetarian life style.

Her first book Over Forty at Last was published in 1980. Her most successful novel is Ophelia Learns to Swim of 1987.

Her most extensive novel Das gesprengte Mieder (The Broken Girdle. Not translated yet) came out in 2000.

Her books have been translated in 29 languages and are published in Germany by Verlagsgruppe Lübbe, in France by Editions Belfond (none in print) and in the United States by MacMillan Publishing Company.

Susanna Kubelka is the sister of the Austrian experimental film maker Peter Kubelka.

Works

• book

  • Das gesprengte Mieder

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