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Erich Hackl

More Happiness in Life

Speeches and Writing

Published by Diogenes as Im Leben mehr Glück

Original Title: Im Leben mehr Glück

A book on friendship to people and loyalty to a utopia, on feeling at home and feeling out of place.

More Happiness in Life contains Erich Hackl’s appreciations of people important to him. He writes about who they were and what they stood for. On the meaning and significance of friendship, resistance, and Heimat. However, it also includes biting and funny writings. Disobedient thank-you speeches. Essays about writers he admires, and about the difficulties of writing. His work from the past 25 years follows a common thread and, against all odds, doesn’t let it go.

Contemporary Literature
432 pages
2019

978-3-257-07057-6

Erich

Hackl

Erich Hackl, born in Steyr, Austria in 1954, studied German and Spanish and worked as a teacher and editor for a number of years. Madrid and Vienna, where he works as a writer and translator, have been home to him for a long time now. His stories are based on authentic cases. Aurora’s Motive and Farewell Sidonia are on school reading lists. Erich Hackl has received numerous awards, including the 2017 ›Human Rights Award‹ of the state of Upper Austria , the ›Anton Wildgans Prize 2015‹ by the Federation of Austrian Industry and the ›Award for Literature‹ from the city of Vienna in 2002.

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