{{short description|Austrian writer (born 1969)}} '''Linda Stift''' (born 1969) is an Austrian writer.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://festivalneueliteratur.org/linda-stift/ |title=Bio |access-date=2015-10-19 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150301034248/http://festivalneueliteratur.org/linda-stift/ |archive-date=2015-03-01 |url-status=dead }}</ref> She was born in Wagna and studied German literature at the University of Vienna. She has published three novels to date: ''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.

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