Thomas Stangl (writer)

Tomas Stangl after receiving the Erich Fried Prize , Vienna 2011.

Thomas Stangl (born January 4, 1966 in Vienna ) is an Austrian writer .

Life

Thomas Stangl studied philosophy and Spanish at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1991 with a thesis on deconstructive literary theory . After graduating, he first wrote essays, book reviews and also small prose works for newspapers and literary magazines.

Thomas Stangl lives in Vienna.

Honors

• 2004 Aspect Literature Prize for the novel The Only Place

• 2004 Hermann Lenz Scholarship
• 2005 Literature Prize from the Austrian Federal Chancellery
• 2007 Telekom Austria Prize at the Ingeborg Bachmann Competition
• 2007 Literature Prize of the Kulturkreis der deutschen Wirtschaft
• 2009 Scholarship from the Heinrich Heine House of the City of Lüneburg
• 2009 Manuscript Prize of the State of Styria
• 2010 Alpha Literature Prize
• 2011 Erich Fried Prize
• Requests to speak in 2019 - Literature award for the story Die Toten von Zimmer 105
• 2019 Honorary gift from the German Schiller Foundation
• 2020 Johann Friedrich von Cotta Prize for Literature and Translation from the City of Stuttgart
• 2020: Sarah Samuel Prize for Short Prose for The History of the Body

Works

Stangl reads from Rules of Dance , Alte Schmiede , 2013.

• The only place . Novel. Droschl, Graz 2004, ISBN 978-3-85420-649-1 .
• Your music . Novel. Droschl, Graz 2006, ISBN 978-3-85420-709-2 .
• What's coming . Novel. Droschl, Graz 2009, ISBN 978-3-85420-752-8 .
• Travel and ghosts . Essays and short stories. Droschl, Graz 2012, ISBN 978-3-85420-791-7 .
• Rules of dance. Novel. Droschl, Graz 2013, ISBN 978-3-85420-649-1 .
• Freedom and boredom. Essays. Droschl, Graz 2016, ISBN 978-3-85420-981-2 .
• Foreign relations. Novel. Droschl, Graz 2018, ISBN 978-3-99059-009-6 .
• The history of the body. Stories. Droschl, Graz 2019, ISBN 978-3-99059-037-9 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Thomas Stangl in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Thomas Stangl
• Short biography and reviews of works by Thomas Stangl at perlentaucher.de
• To his novel The Only Place

Individual evidence

1. ↑ orf.at: Words of opinion literary prize to the Austrian Stangl . Article dated February 7, 2019, accessed February 7, 2019.
2. ↑ Thomas Stangl and Claudia Steinitz honored. In: buecher.at. May 19, 2020, accessed May 21, 2020 . 
3. ↑ Thomas Stangl receives Sarah Samuel Prize for short prose. In: Salzburger Nachrichten . June 26, 2020, accessed June 26, 2020 . 
4. ↑ Paul Jandl: The Furies of Disappearance spare no one . Review in the NZZ on June 4, 2019, accessed on June 4, 2019.