Wolfgang Ratz (born January 12, 1959, in Bilbao, Spain) is an Austrian writer and singer-songwriter.
He studied translation for Spanish, English and French, as well as Graphical Arts at the University of Vienna.
Ratz works as a writer, translator of literature, artist and singer-songwriter in Vienna.
He contributed in German and Spanish to literary magazines (e.g. Literarisches Österreich, Die Furche, Literaricum, O Correo Galego, Diario de Querétaro) and published in anthologies.
In 1991 he was awarded the 3rd Poetry Prize of the PEN Club of Liechtenstein, in 1996 the mención de honor at the Festival of Literature of the Latin American magazin Xicóatl, and in 2006 the 2nd Prize of the International Poetry Competition – German of Dublin's Feile Filíochta.