Language German Name Thomas Stangl Nationality Austrian Role Writer | Alma mater University of Vienna Education University of Vienna Genre Novelist | |
Born January 4, 1966 (age 58)
Vienna, Austria ( 1966-01-04 ) | ||
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Thomas Stangl (born 4 January 1966 Vienna) is an Austrian writer.
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Life
Thomas Stangl studied philosophy and Spanish at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1991 with a thesis on deconstructive literary theory from. After graduation, he initially wrote essays, book reviews, and even smaller prose work for newspapers and literary journals.
Thomas Stangl lives in Vienna.
Honours
For his debut novel The only place the author received the aspects Prize for Literature in 2004, the same year a Hermann-Lenz Scholarship, and the 2005 Literature Prize of the Austrian Federal Chancellery. In June 2007, he received the Telekom Austria Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann competition; in October 2007, the Literature Prize of the Cultural Committee of German Economy, 2009, a grant from the Heinrich-Heine-house of the city of Lueneburg, 2010 Literature Prize Alpha and the 2011 Erich Fried Prize.