| Thomas Stangl | |
| Birth Date: | 4 January 1966 |
| Birth Place: | Vienna, Austria |
| Language: | German |
| Nationality: | Austrian |
| Alma Mater: | University of Vienna |
| Genre: | Novelist |
Thomas Stangl (born 4 January 1966 in Vienna) is an Austrian writer.
Thomas Stangl studied philosophy and Spanish at the University of Vienna and graduated in 1991 with a thesis on deconstructive literary theory. After graduation, he initially wrote essays, book reviews, and even smaller prose work for newspapers and literary journals. Thomas Stangl lives in Vienna.
For his debut novel Der einzige Ort (The only place) the author received the Aspekte-Literaturpreis 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 Lüneburg, 2010 Literature Prize Alpha and the 2011 Erich Fried Prize.[1] In 2020, he received the Johann-Friedrich-von-Cotta-Literatur- und Übersetzerpreis der Landeshauptstadt Stuttgart.