This year’s writer-in-residence at the Ingeborg Bachmann Centre London is Lydia Mischkulnig, whose distinctive and uncompromising voice has earned her the prestigious Bertelsmann Literaturpreis at the Ingeborg Bachmann Wettbewerb (1996) and the Manuskripte-Preis (2002). Her work includes the novels Hollywood in the Winter (‘Hollywood im Winter’), published in 1996, and Embrace (‘Umarmung’), which appeared in 2002, as well as collections of short stories such as Seven Temptations (‘Sieben Versuchungen’) (1998), and most recently, Don’t Worry. Nine Visitations (‘Macht euch keine Sorgen. Neun Heimsuchungen’), published in 2009.