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Marlen Haushofer née Marie Helene Frauendorfer (11 April 1920 —21 March 1970) was an Austrian author, most famous for her only novel translated into English, The Wall. 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.

In 1941, she married Manfred Haushofer, a dentist, and had two sons, Christian and Manfred.[1] In 1950, they divorced, only to remarry in 1958.

Earning literary awards as early as 1953, Haushofer went on to publish her first novel, A Handful of Life in 1955. In 1956, she won the Theodor-Körner Prize for early contributions and projects involving art and culture. In 1958, her novella We Murder Stella was published. The Wall, considered her finest achievement, came out in 1962. It received the Arthur Schnitzler Prize in 1963. Her last novel, The Attic, was published in 1969. 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.[2]

In 1970, she died of bone cancer at a clinic in Vienna.

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