Lilian Faschinger

Lilian Faschinger was born in 1950 in Carinthia, Austria. She studied at the University of Graz, earning a Doctorate in English Literature, and later lectured for many years on the subject at the University. Faschinger first won great acclaim for her Die neue Scheherazade in 1985, which earned her a travel scholarship and a publishing contract.

Faschinger is also a well-known translator, having won the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translators. She has translated such works as John Banville’s Athena. Her publications include The New Sheherezade, 1983, A Comedy, 1989, Women with Three Aeroplanes, 1993 and Magdalena the Sinner, 1995.

She currently lives in Vienna.