Milena Michiko Flašar was born in 1980, the daughter of a Japanese mother and an Austrian father. She lives in Vienna. I Called Him Necktie won the 2012 Austrian Alpha Literature Prize.
“A striking variation on the theme of the muse, this novel probes overlapping varieties of attraction … It veers toward the erotic, quickening the painter’s search for the model’s soul—‘a term that disintegrates the moment you try to define it.’”
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The New Yorker
Milena Michiko Flašar
