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The Great Literary Scholarships are awarded by the Province of Tyrol every two years for promising literary projects on the recommendation of a jury of experts. The scholarships are endowed with 15,000 EUR each. Authors from the fields of prose and poetry whose biography or literary projects are closely linked to Tyrol are invited to apply. The scholarship’s aim is to give authors the opportunity to focus on the work on a literary project.
Since 2008, the H.C. Artmann/Writer-in-Residence program has invited authors to engage with Hans Carl Artmann’s work and to promote their own writing. The program also facilitates networking in Salzburg as a literary location. It is expressly desired, for example, to present one’s own works to the public at a reading, to meet with colleagues and students and to attend events at the House of Literature with free admission.
The responsibility of department IV/5 of the Federal Chancellery includes the promotion of all areas of literature. Several scholarships aim to promote the work on literary projects (prose, poetry, essay) of young authors who already have independent publications. 15 scholarships of 9,000 EUR each are annually awarded. Applicants need to have Austrian citizenship, or their place of residence should be in Austria.
The Austrian Literary Society has made Casa Litterarum available to Austrian authors since 2010. The house is located on an estate in Paliano about 60 km southeast of Rome. Funding for the stay at Casa Litterarum is provided by a travel grant from the Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sports. The Casa Litterarum is available to scholarship holders for one month at a time and is linked to a travel grant from the BMKOES. The author must have at least one publication and the submitted project should justify the residency in Italy.
The City of Vienna awards work and travel grants for literary translators. The scholarships are awarded for projects involving the translation of foreign-language literature into German or into another regional or minority language used in Austria. Potential Scholars must have a personal connection to Vienna. The amount of funding per candidate is calculated in such a way that it contributes to an increase in the quality of the translator’s work.
