Awards and Honors

· Ehrenstipendium der Leopoldstadt-Wien Stiftung für Sprachkunst (Honorary Fellowship of the Leopoldstadt-Vienna Foundation for Language Arts), 1999
Granted for his early linguistic explorations, this award is given to authors “whose work breathes between the lines.”

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· Residency in der Villa Revoltella, Triest (Villa Revoltella Residency, Fondazione delle Idee Perdute Trieste), 2002
As the first non-Italian resident, Meran spent a year sketching the earliest drafts of Der Fußnot and Die Melzers.

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· Österreichischer Staatspreis für literarische Innovation (Austrian National Prize for Literary Innovation), 2008
Awarded for Der Fußnot – A Wanderer Between the Lines, celebrated as a “masterful experiment at the edges of traditional narrative form.”

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· Prix Melancholia de la Société des Amis du Silence Littéraire, Genf (Prix Melancholia of the Society of Friends of Literary Silence, Geneva), 2012
A discreet literary prize awarded every five years to writers “whose works touch the unspeakable with a voice of in-between tones.”

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· Ehrenmitglied der Akademie für Verschwundene Welten und Verborgene Städte (Honorary Member of the Academy of Vanished Worlds and Hidden Cities), 2017
This independent academy honors authors who make “lost places, submerged worlds, and inner continents visible.” Meran was inducted for his quiet exploration of decay and beauty in Die Melzers.

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· Finalist beim Goldenen Faden der Europäischen Literaturtage (Finalist for the Golden Thread of the European Literature Days), 2021
Recognized for his life's work, especially for his artful interweaving of Central European stylistic traditions with a modern, playful language, as displayed in Here You Have Nothing. Keep It Well. – An Austro-Hungarian Novel Made of 41 Hungarian Proverbs.