Lilian Faschinger

Lilian Faschinger, born in Carinthia, Austria, in 1950, is an Austrian writer and literary translator. She studied English and history in Graz and received her doctorate in 1975 for a dissertation on late medieval English mysticism. Until 1991, she worked as a research associate and lecturer at the University of Graz’s Department of English Studies; from 1992 onward, she worked freelance as a writer and translator. Her best-known works include the novels The New Scheherazade, Magdalena the Sinner and Vienna Passion, as well as the story collection Woman with Three Airplanes. Magdalena the Sinner was translated into numerous languages. In 1990, Faschinger and Thomas Priebsch received the Austrian State Prize for Literary Translation; in 2008, she was awarded the Friedrich Glauser Prize.