Elfriede Czurda (born 25 April 1946) is an Austrian poet, writer and translator.
Her opening novel of the trilogy, Die Giftmörderinnen, is told in stylisised speech by the central figure who is in jail having poisoned her husband assisted by her lover and neighbour, Erika.
Czurda's original text had featured poetry, unusual typographics and invented words.
Waldrop's translation required her to create new words like stitchomantic to match Czurda's text.
She won the Alexander Sacher Masoch Prize in 1997 which was worth 7,000 euros for young writers.