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Previously-unpublished Thomas Bernhard text to be released in 2009

German publishing house Suhrkamp has promised a "sensational release" during next year’s Thomas Bernhard year.

The publishing house will release "Meine Preise" ("My Awards"), a previously-unpublished prose text from 1980 by the novelist who was born in the Netherlands but had Austrian citizenship.

Bernhard, who died in 1989 in Ohlsdorf in Upper Austria, is considered one of Austria’s most-important authors of the past century.

Bernhard was infamous for criticising Austria in many of his works, lambasting the country for being "Catholic National-Socialist". Conservative forces accused him of being a "Nestbeschmutzer", someone who dirties his own nest and denigrates his country.

Austrian Times

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