About Didi Drobna

Didi Drobna was born 1988 in Bratislava (former Czechoslovakia), and lives in Vienna, Austria since 1991. She studied Communication and German literature at the University of Vienna. 

Her literary work has been awarded with several scholarships and literary prizes, most recently with the Literature Award of the City of Vienna 2023. Her first book "Zwischen Schaumstoff" was selected to be the book of the campaign "Innsbruck liest" in 2016. Her newest novel "Ostblockherz" will be published in May 2025 by PIPER. In her day job Didi Drobna works for an IT research center and also teaches at the University of Applied Arts in Vienna.