LINDA STIFT (1969) is an Austrian writer.[1] She was born in Wagna and studied German literature at the University of Vienna. She has published three novels: Kingpeng (2005), Stierhunger (2007) and Kein einziger Tag (2011).
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.
LINDA STIFT rođena je 1969. u južnoj Štajerskoj. Završila je studij germanistike i živi u Beču kao slobodna spisateljica. Dobitnica je brojnih nagrada i stipendija. Njezin debitantski roman „Kingpeng“ (2005.) privukao je veliku pozornost kritike i publike, roman „Stierhunger“ uslijedio je 2007. godine, a 2011. godine roman „Kein einziger Tag“ u nakladi izdavačke kuće Deuticke.
Projektom “Bečka kavana” predstavili smo Lindu Stift u Splitu i na otoku Braču.