Eva Menasse

b. 1970

Austrian author and journalist Eva Menasse wrote for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin before devoting herself to writing fiction. In 2007, the English translation of her novel Vienna was nominated for the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the United Kingdom.

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We couldn’t be Jews, my brother finally explained, raising his voice, because our grandmother had not been Jewish, and for Jews only your mother counts. We weren’t even half-Jewish, because our father…