List of Austrian writers

This is a list of Austrian writers and poets.

A

 * Ilse Aichinger (1921–2016), writer
 * Peter Altenberg (1859–1910), writer and poet
 * Jean Améry (1912–1978), writer
 * Ernst Angel (1894–1986), writer, poet and psychologist
 * Ludwig Anzengruber (1839–1889), writer
 * H. C. Artmann (1921–2000), poet and writer

B

 * Ingeborg Bachmann (1926–1973), poet
 * Hermann Bahr (1863–1934), playwright, novelist
 * Christoph W. Bauer (1968– ), novelist
 * Eduard von Bauernfeld (1802–1890), dramatist
 * Johann Beer (17th century), writer and composer
 * Thomas Bernhard (1931–1989), dramatist, novelist, poet, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
 * Edmund Blum (1874–1938)
 * Hermann Broch (1886–1951), writer
 * Max Brod (1884–1968), born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, wrote in German

C

 * Elias Canetti (1905–1994), writer (born in Rustschuk, Bulgaria), wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
 * Veza Canetti (1897–1963) poet, playwright, and short story writer
 * Otto Maria Carpeaux (1900–1978), literary critic and foremost historian of Literature
 * Paul Celan (1920–1970), poet (born in Czernowitz, Austria-Hungary), wrote in German
 * Ada Christen (1839–1901), poet, short story writer, and writer of sketches

D

 * Robert Dassanowsky (1965–2023), Austrian-American poet
 * Michael Denis (1729–1800), poet
 * Heimito von Doderer (1896–1966), writer, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna
 * Milo Dor (1923–2005), Austrian writer of Serbian origin

E

 * Klaus Ebner (born 1964), writer, born in Vienna
 * Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach (1830–1916), writer (style: psychological novelist)
 * Gustav Ernst (born 1944), playwright and novelist

F

 * Lilian Faschinger (born 1950), novelist, poet, and literary translator
 * Franzobel (born 1967) (real name: Stefan Griebl), writer
 * Sigmund Freud (1856–1939), philosopher, psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis
 * Alfred Fried (1864–1921), writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
 * Erich Fried (1921–1988), poet and novelist
 * Egon Friedell (1878–1938), author, journalist and actor
 * Marianne Fritz (1948–2007), writer and novelist

G

 * Karl-Markus Gauß (born 1954), essayist, Salzburg
 * Karin Gayer (born 1969), writer, Mödling and Vienna
 * Thomas Glavinic (born 1972), writer, Graz
 * Heinrich Glücksmann (1864–1947), writer
 * Constantin Göttfert (born 1979), writer
 * Franz Grillparzer (1791–1872), dramatist, Vienna

H

 * Wolf Haas (born 1960), writer best known for his Brenner novels
 * Friedrich Halm (1806–1871)
 * Robert Hamerling (1830–1889), poet
 * Peter Handke (born 1942), author, born in Griffen (Carinthia)
 * Josef Haslinger (born 1955), writer
 * Friedrich Heer (1916–1983), historian and writer, Vienna
 * Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg (1851–1918), writer and traveller
 * Fritz Hochwälder (1911–1986), playwright
 * Hugo von Hofmannsthal (1874–1929), dramatist, writer
 * Ödön von Horváth (1901–1938), writer, born in Fiume (today Rijeka), Austria-Hungary

J

 * Ernst Jandl (1925–2000), experimental lyric
 * Elfriede Jelinek (born 1946), 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature

K

 * Eugenie Kain (1960–2010), writer, born in Linz, wrote in German
 * Franz Kafka (1883–1924), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
 * Ernst Kein (1928-1985), writer, born in Vienna, wrote in German
 * Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer (born 1936), novelist, poet
 * Egon Erwin Kisch (1885–1948), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
 * Werner Kofler (1947–2011), novelist
 * Ludwig von Köchel (1800–1877), writer, composer, botanist, music historian
 * Karl Kraus (1874–1936), essayist, poet, dramatist
 * Anton Kuh (1890–1941), writer and journalist

L

 * Minna Lachs (1907–1993), educator and memoirist
 * Ann Tizia Leitich (1896–1976), writer and journalist
 * Alexander Lernet-Holenia (1897–1976), novelist, poet, playwright
 * Nikolaus Lenau (1802–1850), poet
 * Cvetka Lipuš (born 1966), poet
 * Mira Lobe (1913–1995), children's literature writer
 * Konrad Lorenz (1903–1989)

M

 * Rosa Mayreder (1858–1938), writer and suffragette
 * Friederike Mayröcker (1924–2021), contemporary writer
 * Robert Menasse (born 1954), writer and publicist
 * Gustav Meyrink (1868–1932), writer
 * Frederic Morton (1924–2015), journalist and novelist
 * Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, known as Friedrich Halm (1806–1871), writer and dramatist
 * Robert Musil (1880–1942), writer

N

 * Günther Nenning (1921–2006), journalist
 * Johann Nestroy (1801–1862), playwright
 * Christine Nöstlinger (1936–2018), writer (especially literature for children)

O

 * Andreas Okopenko (1930–2010), writer

P

 * Katharina Prato (1818–1897), cookbook writer
 * Leo Perutz (1882–1957), writer
 * Andreas P. Pittler (born 1964), writer
 * Thomas Pollan (born 1971)
 * Ursula Poznanski (born 1968), writer

R

 * Doron Rabinovici (born 1961), Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist
 * Ferdinand Raimund (1790–1836), writer and dramatist
 * Christoph Ransmayr (born 1954), writer
 * Elisabeth Reichert (born 1953), writer
 * Neidhart von Reuental, writer and poet 13th century
 * Rainer Maria Rilke (1875–1926), poet and novelist
 * Peter Rosegger (1843–1918), writer
 * Joseph Roth (1894–1939), writer (Radetzkymarsch)

S

 * Ferdinand von Saar (1833–1906), dramatist and writer
 * Leopold von Sacher-Masoch (1836–1895), writer and journalist
 * Hamid Sadr (born 1946), author from Iran
 * Felix Salten (1869–1945), Jewish writer (most famous work Bambi)
 * Arthur Schnitzler (1862–1931), writer
 * Barbara Schurz (born 1973), writer and painter
 * Werner Schwab (1958–1994), playwright
 * Erich Fritz Schweinburg (1890–1959), writer
 * Robert Seethaler (born 1966), writer and actor
 * Hans Werner Sokop (born 1942), poet and translator
 * Jura Soyfer (1912–1933), cabaret writer and political journalist, lived in Vienna
 * Manès Sperber (1905–1984), Austrian-French writer, philosopher and psychologist
 * Fritz Spiegl (1926–2003), journalist
 * Walter Johannes Stein (1891–1957), historian
 * Rudolf Steiner (1861–1925), writer and philosopher
 * Adalbert Stifter (1805–1868), poet and artist
 * Bertha von Suttner (1843–1914), Nobel Peace Prize winner

T

 * Franziska Tausig (1895–1989), Holocaust survivor and memoirist
 * Friedrich Torberg (1908–1979), narrative writer, essayist, script author, born in Vienna
 * Georg Trakl (1887–1914), poet

V

 * Hannelore Valencak (1929–2004), novelist, poet, children's writer

W

 * Franz Werfel (1890–1945), writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary (wrote in German)
 * Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), philosopher
 * Alma Wittlin (1899–1992), historian
 * Oswald von Wolkenstein (1376–1445), writer and composer

Z

 * Joseph Christian, Baron von Zedlitz (1790–1862), dramatist and poet
 * Birgit Zotz (born 1979), writer and anthropologist
 * Volker Zotz, writer and philosopher
 * Stefan Zweig (1881–1942), writer, born in Vienna