Tanja Paar

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Tanja Paar writes prose, plays and essays. She studied philosophy, German and history in Graz, Lausanne and Vienna, where she now lives and writes, working for theatre and various publications. Her books include The Trembling World (Haymon Verlag, 2020), The Unscathed (Haymon Verlag, 2018), and Am Semmering (Residenz Verlag, 2025). She has received numerous awards and prizes for her writing, including the Elias Canetti Scholarship and the Robert Gernhardt Prize. Her blog, Mama geht studieren (Mama’s Going to Uni), described her experience studying computer sciences. Tanja Paar’s work incorporates different disciplines and media. In 2024 she was a fellow of the Literature Forum at the Brecht House in Berlin.