Christine Busta
Austrian poet and writer

Christine Busta

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Austrian poet and writer
A.K.A.
Christine Dimt
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23 April 1915(Vienna, Austria)
Death:
3 December 1987(Vienna, Austria)
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Vienna Public Libraries
Vienna, Austria
(1950 - 1976)
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Christine Busta (23 April 1915, Vienna, Austria – 3 December 1987, Vienna) was an Austrian poet and children's writer.

In her work, she stood for an undogmatic Catholicism.

Awards and honours

  • 1950 Promotion Prize for Literature
  • 1954 Georg Trakl Prize
  • 1961 Promotion Prize for Literature
  • 1963 Droste Prize
  • 1964 Literary Prize of the City of Vienna
  • 1969 Grand Austrian State Prize for Literature
  • 1975 Anton Wildgans Prize
  • 1980 Honorary Medal of the capital Vienna in gold
  • 1980 Austrian Medal for Science and Art
  • 1981 Theodor Körner Prize