Anna Wilhelmine Gmeyner (16 March 1902 – 3 January 1991) was an Austrian-born Jewish writer, playwright, and screenwriter who was exiled from Germany and Austria, best known for her novel Manja (1938).
She married Bertold Wiesner, a controversial physician who pioneered human infertility treatment, and who was revealed to have been the biological father of as many as one thousand of the children his wife's medical practice in London helped to be conceived.
The family relocated to Scotland in 1926 after Wiesner was offered a job at the University of Edinburgh, it was during this time that Gmeyner gathered inspiration for her play about the Scottish miners' strike.
Her first theatrical works were a children's play called The Great and Little Claus and a critically acclaimed drama about the miners' strike in Scotland.
A new English translation was published by Persephone Books in 2003, under Gmeyner's real name and restoring the original title, with a preface by Eva Ibbotson.