Valerie Fritsch

Valerie Fritsch is an Austrian author and photographer. In 2018, her novel Winter’s Garden, translated by Jamie Lee Searle, won the PEN/Heim Grant for Translation into English.


Articles by Valerie Fritsch

Snow-covered rooftops of a village with a tall church steeple, set beside a calm lake and backed by a large, tree-covered mountain partially shrouded in mist.
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Tuesday May 1

from Winter’s Garden

For Anton Winter, childhood was crammed with tall grasses and tea roses and green apples in the trees, which were stared at so covetously all summer long that they eventually began to blush with shyness.