Claudio Magris#
| Membership Number: | 639 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | LITERARY & THEATRICAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 1989 |
| Main Country of Residence: | ITALY |
Present and Previous Positions
- 1978-2006 Professor of modern German literature at the University of Trieste
Fields of Scholarship
- German Language and Literature
Honours and Awards
- 1980 Austrian Cross of Honour for Science and Art
- 1987 Bagutta Prize for Danubio
- 1990 French Award for Best Foreign Book (essays) for Danubio
- 1992 Humboldt Research Award from the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation
- 1994 Gold Medal of Honour of the City of Vienna
- 1995 Honorary doctorate from the University of Klagenfurt
- 1997 Strega Prize for Microcosmi
- 2000 Würth Prize for European Literature
- 2001 Knight Grand Cross of the Order of Merit of the Italian Republic
- 2001 Erasmus Prize
- 2001 Leipzig Book Prize for European Understanding (Grand Prize)
- 2001 Member of the Academy of Arts Berlin
- 2004 Prince of Asturias Award for Literature
- 2006 Austrian State Prize for European Literature
- 2007 Kythera Award
- 2008 Walter Hallstein Prize
- 2009 Peace Prize of the German Book Trade
- 2009 Prix Européen de l'Essai Charles Veillon
- 2009 Prix Jean Monnet European Literature
- 2009 Knight of the Order of Arts and Letters of Spain
- 2012 Austrian Decoration for Science and Art
- 2012 Cross of the Order of Merit of the Federal Republic of Germany
