Linda Stift
Linda Stift is an Austrian writer. She was born in Wagna and studied German literature at the University of Vienna. She has published three novels to date: Kingpeng, Stierhunger and Kein einziger Tag.
She won the Alfred Gesswein Literaturpreis in 2007. She was also nominated for the prestigious Ingeborg [Bachmann Prize] in 2009. Stierhunger was published in English as The Empress and the Cake by Peirene Press in 2016 in a translation by Jamie Bulloch.