Cultural References
- He is honoured in Austria with a pastry, the Grillparzertorte.
- Outside Austria, the modern reader is perhaps most familiar with Grillparzer via disparaging references to him in the popular John Irving novel The World According to Garp. The book features a story within a story entitled The Pension Grillparzer.
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