Biography
Arad Dabiri was born in Vienna in 1997 and studied comparative literature at the University of Vienna. In 2023 Septime Verlag published his debut novel DRAMA, a Viennese city novel set over a single night, which won the debut prize of the Austrian Book Prize that year and was nominated for the Franz Tumler Literature Prize; the novel GLORIA! followed in 2024. His first play, DRUCK!, was written in 2023 in the drama lab of Wiener Wortstaetten and received the authors’ prize of the Heidelberger Stückemarkt in 2024. After its premiere at the Nationaltheater Mannheim in January 2025, the critics’ poll of Theater heute named him young playwright of the year, and in 2026 the play was invited to the Mülheimer Theatertage.
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