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Franz Innerhofer

Died in 2002

Franz Innerhofer (1944-2002) was born in Krimml, in the Pinzgau, the illegitimate son of a farm worker, and from the age of six to seventeen was a farmhand on his father's farm, in Uttendorf. An apprentice blacksmith, he attended an adult secondary school from 1966 and studied German and English for a few semesters in Salzburg. A freelance writer from 1973, he lived in Orvieto and near Zurich, then worked as a bookseller in Graz. Fallen into oblivion in the eighties and struggling with alcohol, he received the Styria Prize in 1993 for his body of work and took his own life in Graz in January 2002.

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