Eva Menasse (born 11 May 1970 in Vienna) is an Austrian author and journalist. She has studied history and German literature. Menasse had a successful career as a journalist, writing for the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung in Frankfurt and as a correspondent from Prague and Berlin. She left the paper to write her first novel, Vienna, and now lives and works in Berlin as a freelance author.
In 2005, she received the Corine Literature Prize. The English translation of her novel Vienna was shortlisted for the 2007 Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in the UK.
Menasse was married to the German author Michael Kumpfmüller from 2004 to 2017. She is the half-sibling of writer Robert Menasse.
Awards 2013 Heinrich-Böll-Preis 2015 Villa Massimo Scholarship in Rome 2015 Jonathan-Swift-Preis 2017 Friedrich-Hölderlin-Preis 2017 Austrian Book Prize 2019 Ludwig Börne Prize 2019 Mainzer Stadtschreiber 2023 Jakob-Wassermann-Literaturpreis
Works Die letzte Märchenprinzessin, (with Elisabeth and Robert Menasse), 1997 Klein Menasses der mächtigste Mann, (with Elisabeth and Robert Menasse), 1998 Der Holocaust vor Gericht. Der Prozess um David Irving, 2000 Vienna, novel, 2005 (English: Vienna, translated by Anthea Bell, 2006) Lässliche Todsünden, short stories, 2009 Quasikristalle, novel, 2013 Lieber aufgeregt als abgeklärt, essays, 2015 Tiere für Fortgeschrittene, short stories, 2017 Gedankenspiele über den Kompromiss, essay, 2020 Geborgen am Busen der Musen. Früher oder später bekommt das Museum uns alle, essay, 2020 Dunkelblum, novel, 2021 (English, Darkenbloom, translated by Charlotte Collins, 2025)
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