Gisbert Haefs

Gisbert Haefs, German writer, translator and publisher, 2010 in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.

Gisbert Haefs (born 9 January 1950) is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as Alexander,[1] won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis[2] and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis[3] in science fiction, and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis[4] for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.[5]

References

  1. ^ Walter Pape (1 January 1993). 1870/71-1989/90: German Unifications and the Change of Literary Discourse. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 222–. ISBN 978-3-11-013878-8.
  2. ^ Deutscher Science Fiction Preis page on "Gisbert Haefs" (German)
  3. ^ "homepage of the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, page for 1990 (German)". Archived from the original on 2015-02-18. Retrieved 2014-08-16.
  4. ^ Official website of the Deutscher Krimi Preis, page for 1997 (German)
  5. ^ Edna Aizenberg (1990). Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts. University of Missouri Press. pp. 75–76. ISBN 978-0-8262-0712-8.


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