Franz Nabl (1883 - 1974)

Franz Nabl was an Austrian writer born in 1883 in Lautschin (Bohemia), then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, and died in Graz on January 19, 1974 as the doyen of (traditional) Styrian literature. The Franz Nabl Institute for Literary Research (a department in the University of Graz) has been awarding the Franz Nabl Prize, a biennial Austrian literature award, since 1975.