Wolfgang Ratz

Wolfgang Ratz ( born January 12, 1959 in Bilbao, Spain) is an Austrian writer.

Life

Wolfgang Ratz was born in Bilbao in the Basque Country. He spent his childhood in Vienna and completed a study translation for Spanish, English and French as well as painting and graphic art at the Vienna Academy of Applied Arts. Today Ratz is a freelance writer, literary translator, painter and songwriter in Vienna. He writes poetry, fiction and literary critical reviews. Contributions in German and Spanish appeared in literary journals (eg Literary Austria, The Furrow, Literaricum, O Correo Galego, Diario de Querétaro ) and anthologies. In 1991 he was awarded the third prize for poetry of the PEN Club Liechtenstein, 1996 mención de honor at the Literature Prize of the trilingual Latin American cultural magazine Xicóatl, 2006 the 2nd prize of the International Poetry Competition - German, the file Filíochta Dublin.

Wolfgang Ratz is a member of the Graz authors Autorenversammlung, founding member of ALA ( Latin American authors in Austria ) and a former board member of the Austrian Writers' Association.

Works

  • Hoja rota / Torn sheet, lyrics Spanish- German ( with Javier Tafur ) Publisher Cuadernos negros, Calarcá 2007
  • El idioma de las hormigas / The language of the ants, Spanish- German poetry, publishing Vitrales de Alejandria, Caracas 2004, ISBN 980-6480-23-6
  • Poesía entre dos mundos: antología ALA, Poetry (ed.), Edition colon, Vienna 2004, ISBN 3-85273-177-1
  • Cinnamon and metal, poetry, publishing G. Grasl, Baden bei Wien 2002, ISBN 3-85098-259-9
  • 1492- there is no truth and clarity, theater ( performance by the theater group CCC in Spanish), Vienna 1992
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