Barbi Marković

Barbi Marković, born in 1980 in Belgrade, studied German Studies in Belgrade and Vienna. In Belgrade, she worked as an editor at Rende Publishing House. She has been living in Vienna since 2006, and in 2011/2012, she was the city writer in Graz. In 2009, she made a splash with her Thomas Bernhard remix novel “Going Out” (Izlaženje, 2006). This was followed by short stories, plays, radio dramas, and numerous awards. In 2016, her novel “Superheldinnen” was published; it was the first novel she wrote partly in German and partly in Serbian. For “Superheldinnen,” she received the Alpha Literature Award in 2016, the Adelbert von Chamisso Promotional Award in 2017, the Georg Saiko Travel Grant in 2018, and the Reinhard Priessnitz Award in 2019. In 2018, “Superheldinnen” was adapted into a play at the Volkstheater in Vienna. In 2023, Barbi Marković received the Berlin Art Prize for Literature as well as the Outstanding Artist Award. In 2024, she was honored with the Leipzig Book Fair Prize and the Carl Amery Literature Prize for her literary work “Minihorror.” Most recently published by Residenz Verlag: “Die verschissene Zeit” (2021) and “Minihorror” (2023).