Milena Michiko Flašar
Milena Michiko Flašar, born 1980 in St. Pölten, studied German and Romance philology in Vienna and Berlin. She is the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. Her novel I Called Him Necktie was sold over 100,000 times, premiered as a play at Maxim Gorki Theater and was awarded several times and has been translated into numerous languages. The author lives with her family in Vienna.

