List of Austrian writers

A

• Ilse Aichinger, writer
• Peter Altenberg, writer and poet
• Jean Améry, writer
• Ernst Angel, writer, poet and psychologist
• Ludwig Anzengruber, writer
• H. C. Artmann, poet and writer

  B

• Ingeborg Bachmann, poet
• Hermann Bahr, playwright, novelist
• Christoph W. Bauer, novelist
• Eduard von Bauernfeld, dramatist
• Johann Beer, writer and composer
• Thomas Bernhard, dramatist, novelist, poet, born in Cloister Heerlen, Netherlands
• Edmund Blum
• Hermann Broch, writer
• Max Brod, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary, wrote in German

  C

• Elias Canetti, writer, wrote in German, Nobel Prize in Literature 1981
• Veza Canetti poet, playwright, and short story writer
• Otto Maria Carpeaux, literary critic and foremost historian of Literature
• Paul Celan, poet, wrote in German
• Ada Christen, poet, short story writer, and writer of sketches

  D

• Robert Dassanowsky, Austrian-American poet
• Michael Denis, poet
• Heimito von Doderer, writer, born in Hadersdorf-Weidlingau near Vienna
• Milo Dor, Austrian writer of Serbian origin

  E

• Klaus Ebner, writer, born in Vienna
• Marie von Ebner-Eschenbach, writer
• Gustav Ernst, playwright and novelist

  F

• Lilian Faschinger, novelist, poet, and literary translator
• Franzobel, writer
• Sigmund Freud, philosopher, psychologist and founder of psychoanalysis
• Alfred Fried, writer, pacifist and Nobel Peace Prize winner in 1911
• Erich Fried, poet and novelist
• Egon Friedell, author, journalist and actor
• Marianne Fritz, writer and novelist

  G

• Karl-Markus Gauß, essayist, Salzburg
• Karin Gayer, writer, Mödling and Vienna
• Thomas Glavinic, writer, Graz
• Heinrich Glücksmann, writer
• Constantin Göttfert, writer
• Franz Grillparzer, dramatist, Vienna

  H

• Wolf Haas, writer best known for his Brenner novels
• Friedrich Halm
• Robert Hamerling, poet
• Peter Handke, author, born in Griffen
• Josef Haslinger, writer
• Friedrich Heer, historian and writer, Vienna
• Ernst von Hesse-Wartegg, writer and traveller
• Fritz Hochwälder, playwright
• Hugo von Hofmannsthal, dramatist, writer
• Martin Horváth, writer, musician
• Ödön von Horváth, writer, born in Fiume, Austria-Hungary

  J

• Ernst Jandl, experimental lyric
• Elfriede Jelinek, 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature

  K

• Eugenie Kain, writer, born in Linz, wrote in German
• Franz Kafka, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
• Marie-Thérèse Kerschbaumer, novelist, poet
• Egon Erwin Kisch, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
• Werner Kofler, novelist
• Ludwig von Köchel, writer, composer, botanist, music historian
• Karl Kraus, essayist, poet, dramatist
• Anton Kuh, writer and journalist

  L

• Minna Lachs, educator and memoirist
• Alexander Lernet-Holenia, novelist, poet, playwright
• Nikolaus Lenau, poet
• Cvetka Lipuš, poet
• Mira Lobe, children's literature writer
• Konrad Lorenz

  M

• Rosa Mayreder, writer and suffragette
• Friederike Mayröcker, contemporary writer
• Robert Menasse, writer and publicist
• Gustav Meyrink, writer
• Frederic Morton, journalist and novelist
• Eligius Franz Joseph von Münch-Bellinghausen, known as Friedrich Halm, writer and dramatist
• Robert Musil, writer

  N

• Günther Nenning, journalist
• Johann Nestroy, playwright
• Christine Nöstlinger, writer

  O

• Andreas Okopenko, writer

  P

• Katharina Prato, cookbook writer
• Leo Perutz, writer
• Andreas P. Pittler, writer
• Ursula Poznanski, writer

  R

• Doron Rabinovici, Israeli-Austrian writer, historian and essayist
• Ferdinand Raimund, writer and dramatist
• Christoph Ransmayr, writer
• Elisabeth Reichert
• Neidhart von Reuental, writer and poet 13th century
• Rainer Maria Rilke, poet and novelist
• Peter Rosegger, writer
• Joseph Roth, writer

  S

• Ferdinand von Saar, dramatist and writer
• Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, writer and journalist
• Felix Salten, Jewish writer
• Arthur Schnitzler, writer
• Barbara Schurz, writer and painter
• Werner Schwab, playwright
• Erich Fritz Schweinburg, writer
• Robert Seethaler, writer and actor
• Jura Soyfer, cabaret writer and political journalist, lived in Vienna
• Manès Sperber, Austrian-French writer, philosopher and psychologist
• Fritz Spiegl, journalist
• Walter Johannes Stein, historian
• Rudolf Steiner, writer and philosopher
• Adalbert Stifter, poet and artist
• Bertha von Suttner, Nobel Peace Prize winner

  T

• Franziska Tausig, Holocaust survivor and memoirist
• Friedrich Torberg, narrative writer, essayist, script author, born in Vienna
• Georg Trakl, poet

  V

• Hannelore Valencak, novelist, poet, children's writer

  W

• Franz Werfel, writer, born in Prague, Austria-Hungary
• Ludwig Wittgenstein, philosopher
• Alma Wittlin, historian
• Oswald von Wolkenstein, writer and composer

  Z

• Joseph Christian, Baron von Zedlitz, dramatist and poet
• Birgit Zotz, writer and anthropologist
• Volker Zotz, writer and philosopher
• Stefan Zweig, writer, born in Vienna