1. Robert Menasse was born on 21 June 1954 and is an Austrian writer.
13 Facts About Robert Menasse
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Between 1981 and 1988 Menasse worked as a junior lecturer at the Institute of Literature Theory at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil.
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Robert Menasse has been working as a freelance publicist, columnist and translator of novels from Portuguese into German ever since.
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Robert Menasse's first novel Sinnliche Gewissheit, published in 1988, is a semi-autobiographical tale of Austrians living in exile in Brazil.
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Robert Menasse's language is at times playful and at times subtly sarcastic.
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Since returning to Europe from Brazil, Robert Menasse has mainly lived in the cities of Berlin, Vienna and Amsterdam.
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Since 2011 Robert Menasse has been curating a writer in residence programme with the one world foundation in Sri Lanka.
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Robert Menasse's books have been translated in over twenty languages, among others: Arabic, Bask, Bulgarian, Chinese, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, English, French, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Norwegian, Polish, Portuguese, Russian, Serbian, Slovenian, Spanish, and Swedish.
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Robert Menasse is the son of the footballer Hans Menasse and the brother of the journalist and writer Eva Menasse.
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In Schubumkehr, against the background of the private life of the literature teacher Roman, who was already introduced in Selige Zeiten, bruchige Welt, Robert Menasse describes the fall of the Iron Curtain in 1989 and the breakdown of the familiar order in a small Austrian village.
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In 2017 Robert Menasse published his analytical novel Die Hauptstadt, which has been described as the first novel about Brussels as the European Union's capital, and which received the German Book Prize.
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Robert Menasse had been using these alleged quotes in many of his articles, essays and speeches since 2013, and they had been taken up in parliamentary debates and publications by other authors.
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Robert Menasse defended himself arguing that these sentences reflected what Hallstein had meant and that Hallstein "would have had nothing against" Robert Menasse invoking his authority in this way.