Gisbert Haefs Explained

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]

Notes and References

  1. Book: Walter Pape. 1870/71-1989/90: German Unifications and the Change of Literary Discourse. 1 January 1993. Walter de Gruyter. 978-3-11-013878-8. 222–.
  2. http://www.dsfp.de/?s=gisbert Deutscher Science Fiction Preis page on "Gisbert Haefs" (German)
  3. Web site: homepage of the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, page for 1990 (German) . 2014-08-16 . 2015-02-18 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150218103152/http://www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/1981-1990/KLP_1990_Preistraeger.htm . dead .
  4. http://www.krimilexikon.de/dkp/97.html Official website of the Deutscher Krimi Preis, page for 1997 (German)
  5. Book: Edna Aizenberg. Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts. 1990. University of Missouri Press. 978-0-8262-0712-8. 75–76.