Milena Michiko Flašar

Milena Michiko Flašar

Milena Michiko Flašar was born in 1980 in St. Pölten and now lives with her family in Vienna. She studied German and Romance languages and literature in Vienna and Berlin. She is the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. Her novels have received multiple awards and have been translated into numerous languages. Most recently, she was awarded the Evangelical Book Prize, the Austrian Book Prize France, and in 2025 the Literature Promotion Prize of the A and A Cultural Foundation.

Der Hase im Mond

Who is reflected in the windowpane at night? Is it me or someone else? What happens when the skin becomes permeable and the air grows thinner? How much of life can be planned, and what is true reality? Poetic stories of people in the sand, undermined by fading certainties. As in her novels, Milena Michiko Flašar explores various forms of loneliness and unfulfilled longing in these narratives, while humorously and playfully expanding the literary field with a new surreal and fantastical dimension.

Photo: Julius Erler