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Karl Olsberg

Karl Olsberg holds a Ph.D. in artificial intelligence and is the founder of three start-up companies, one of which was named "Start-up of the Year 2000" by German business magazine Wirtschaftswoche. He has written more than 50 books that have been translated into 10 languages, among them several German national bestsellers. He is an active member of the international AI safety community, working together with AI experts to prevent existential risks from advanced AI.

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Rebecca Gablé

Rebecca Gablé wurde am 25. September 1964 in einer Kleinstadt am Niederrhein geboren. Nach dem Abitur 1984 machte sie eine Lehre als Bankkauffrau. In diesem Beruf hat sie anschließend auch vier Jahre gearbeitet, meistens auf einem Stützpunkt der Royal Air Force, wo sie viel über England, seine Sprache und seine Menschen gelernt hat. Aber die Lust am Erzählen hatte Rebecca Gablé immer schon, und 1990, nachdem sie ihren ersten Roman geschrieben hatte, gab sie ihren erlernten Broterwerb auf, um aus der Lust einen Beruf zu machen. Sie begann ein Literaturstudium in Düsseldorf, dessen Schwerpunkt sich mehr und mehr zur Mediävistik - der Lehre vom Mittelalter - verlagerte.

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Walter Moers

Walter Moers was born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He has refused to be photographed ever since his comic strips The Little Asshole and Adolf were published, the latter leading him to be declared persona non grata by the political right in Germany. Walter Moers lives in Hamburg.

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Andreas Eschbach

Andreas Eschbach is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. Even if some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre, they usually feature elements of the fantastic.

Eschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later worked as a software engineer. He has been writing since he was 12 years old. His first professional publication was the short story Dolls, published in 1991 in German computing magazine C't. His first novel was published in 1995. Five of his novels have won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the German SF scene.

His novels have also been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese.

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Wolf Haas

Wolf Haas is the author of nine books in the bestselling Detective Brenner mystery series, three volumes of which have been made into popular German-language films. Among other prizes, the Brenner books have been awarded the German thriller prize and the 2004 Literature Prize from the City of Vienna.

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Martin Suter

Martin Suter is a Swiss author. He became known for his weekly column Business Class in the Weltwoche newspaper (1992–2004), now appearing in the Tages-Anzeiger, and another column appearing in "NZZ Folio". Suter has published seven novels, for which he received various awards. He is married and lives in Spain and Guatemala.

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Jussi Adler-Olsen

Jussi Adler-Olsen is a Danish author who began to write novels in the 1990s after a comprehensive career as publisher, editor, film composer for the Valhalla cartoon and as a bookseller.

He made his debut with the thriller “Alfabethuset” (1997), which reached bestseller status both in Denmark and internationally just like his subsequent novels “And She Thanked the Gods” (prev. “The Company Basher”) (2003) and “The Washington Decree” (2006). The first book on Department Q is “Kvinden I buret” (2007) and the second “Fasandræberne” (2008). The main detective is Deputy Superintendent Carl Morck from the Department Q and he is also the star of the third volume, “Flaskepost fra P” which was released in the fall of 2009 and secured Adler-Olsen ”Rea

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Benedict Wells

Benedict Wells was born in Munich in 1984. At the age of six he was sent to a state boarding school due to family and other problems at home. Following his graduation from high school in 2003, he decided not to go to university but instead moved to Berlin to pursue his writing. He made a living doing odd jobs. His fourth novel, ›The End of Loneliness‹, spent more than a year and a half on the Spiegel Bestseller list, was awarded the 2016 ›European Union Prize for Literature‹, among other awards, and has been published in 38 languages. After several years in Barcelona, Benedict Wells now lives in Zurich.

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Volker Kutscher

Volker Kutscher ist ein deutscher Schriftsteller. 1995 veröffentlichte er mit Bullenmord seinen ersten Kriminalroman im Kölner Verlag Emons. 2008 erschien unter dem Titel Der nasse Fisch der erste Band einer auf mehrere Bände angelegten Reihe von historischen Kriminalromanen um die literarische Figur des Kölner Kommissars Gereon Rath, die im Berlin der späten Weimarer Republik und des Nationalsozialismus spielen. Die bis 2019 erschienenen ersten 7 Bände spielen in den Jahren 1929 bis 1935.
Volker Kutscher lebt in Köln.

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Marc-Uwe Kling

Marc-Uwe Kling wurde geboren. Er studierte an der Großen Akademie von Lagado, wie man ein Haus vom Dach her nach unten baut. Er hat über seinen Mitbewohner, ein kommunistisches Känguru, drei kapitalismuskritische Bücher geschrieben, welche sich total gut verkaufen. Außerdem macht er mit seiner Band „Die Gesellschaft“ Reformhauspunk und am Ende muss wieder der Steuerzahler für alles aufkommen. Hey. Ho. Let’s go.

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Marc Elsberg

Marc Elsberg is the pseudonym of Marcus Rafelsberger.

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Kristine Bilkau

Kristine Bilkau, born in 1974, studied History and Literature at Hamburg University and Tulane University, New Orleans. Her debut novel „Die Glücklichen" (The Happy Ones) about an urban family getting into the turmoils of financial crisis was awarded best debut novel of the year 2015 with the Klaus-Michael-Kühne-Preis and the Franz-Tumler-Literaturpreis, praised both by reviewers and readers, and translated into Dutch, French and Italian. Her second novel „Eine Liebe, in Gedanken" (A love in thoughts) came out in March 2018 telling a love story about a young couple in the early sixties trying to escape the constrictions and repression of german post-war society.
Kristine Bilkau lives in Hamburg.

Kristine Bilkau, 1974 geboren, studierte Geschi

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Triona Walsh

Tríona Walsh loves reading and writing crime novels but is fairly law abiding in real life. A twice winner of the Irish Writers Centre Novel Fair competition she lives in Dublin with her four kids, three cats and one husband.

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Caroline Wahl

Caroline Wahl (born 1995 in Mainz) is a German author. Her debut novel, 22 Bahnen, was published in April 2023 by DuMont Buchverlag. After her school days, she studied German studies and German literature in Tübingen and Berlin. After that and among other things, she worked as a publishing assistant of the Diogenes Verlag in Zürich. Her love of the sea led her to Northern Germany in 2022 where she worked for a communications agency in Rostock. Since the success of her debut novel, she lives as an independent author in the Hansestadt.

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Steve Tesich

Stojan Steve Tesich was a Serbian-American screenwriter, playwright and novelist. He won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenplay in 1979 for the movie Breaking Away.

His novel Karoo was published posthumously in 1998. Arthur Miller described the novel: "Fascinating—a real satiric invention full of wise outrage.” The novel was a New York Times Notable Book for 1998. Summer Crossing (1982), was also published in a German translation as Ein letzter Sommer and in a French translation as Rencontre d'été.

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Andreas Eschbach

Andreas Eschbach is a German writer who mostly writes science fiction. Even if some of his stories do not exactly fall into the SF genre, they usually feature elements of the fantastic.

Eschbach studied aerospace engineering at the University of Stuttgart and later worked as a software engineer. He has been writing since he was 12 years old. His first professional publication was the short story Dolls, published in 1991 in German computing magazine C't. His first novel was published in 1995. Five of his novels have won the Kurd-Laßwitz-Award, one of the most prestigious awards in the German SF scene.

His novels have also been translated into a number of languages, including English, French, Italian, Russian, Polish, Turkish and Japanese.

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T. Coraghessan Boyle

T. Coraghessan Boyle (also known as T.C. Boyle, is a U.S. novelist and short story writer. Since the late 1970s, he has published eighteen novels and twleve collections of short stories. He won the PEN/Faulkner award in 1988 for his third novel, World's End, which recounts 300 years in upstate New York. He is married with three children. Boyle has been a
Professor of English at the University of Southern California since 1978, when he founded the school's undergraduate creative writing program.

He grew up in the small town on the Hudson Valley that he regularly fictionalizes as Peterskill (as in widely anthologized short story Greasy Lake). Boyle changed his middle name when he was 17 and exclusively used Coraghessan for much of his career,

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Karen Duve

Karen Duve, 1961 in Hamburg geboren, lebt in der Märkischen Schweiz. Sie wurde mit zahlreichen Preisen ausgezeichnet. Ihre Romane »Regenroman« (1999), »Dies ist kein Liebeslied« (2005), »Die entführte Prinzessin« (2005), »Taxi« (2008) und »Macht« (2016) waren Bestseller und wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. 2011 erschien ihr Selbstversuch »Anständig essen«, 2014 die Streitschrift »Warum die Sache schiefgeht«. Die Verfilmung ihres Romans »Taxi« kam im Sommer 2015 ins Kino.

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Bernhard Kegel

geboren am 23. Dezember 1953 in Berlin
wohnhaft in Berlin und Brandenburg
Studium der Chemie und Biologie an der Freien Universität Berlin, Diplombiologe, Forschungstätigkeit, Arbeit als ökologischer Gutachter und Lehrbeauftragter

1986-1991 Wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter am Institut für Biologie der TU Berlin, Arbeitsschwerpunkte Zoologie (Insekten, Käfer) und Ökologie, Lehrtätigkeit

1991 Promotion zum Dr. rer. nat. mit einer agrarökologischen Arbeit über Nebenwirkungen von Pflanzenschutzmitteln auf Bodentiere, zahlreiche wissenschaftliche Veröffentlichungen

1992-1995 Koordinator und Bearbeiter einer zoologischen Bestandsaufnahme („Monitoring“) aller Naturschutzgebiete von (West-)Berlin im Auftrag der Senatsverwaltung für Stadtentwicklung und Um

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Mac P. Lorne

Mac P. Lorne is the pen name of German author Matthias Lisse, best known for his historical fiction.

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Marc Elsberg

Marc Elsberg is the pseudonym of Marcus Rafelsberger.

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Walter Moers

Walter Moers was born in 1957 and is a writer, cartoonist, painter and sculptor. He has refused to be photographed ever since his comic strips The Little Asshole and Adolf were published, the latter leading him to be declared persona non grata by the political right in Germany. Walter Moers lives in Hamburg.

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Axel Hacke

Axel Hacke lebt als Schriftsteller und Kolumnist des Süddeutsche Zeitung Magazins in München. Berühmt ist seine Kolumne „Das Beste aus aller Welt", die er seit Jahrzehnten jede Woche darin veröffentlicht. Er gehört zu den bekanntesten Autoren Deutschlands, seine Bücher wurden in zahlreiche Sprachen übersetzt. Seine Arbeit wurde unter anderem mit dem Joseph-Roth-Preis, zwei Egon-Erwin-Kisch-Preisen, dem Theodor-Wolff-Preis und zuletzt dem Ben Witter-Preis 2019 ausgezeichnet.

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Eckart von Hirschhausen

Eckart von Hirschhausen is a German physician and comedian.

He is known for heavily incorporating his medical knowledge in his comedy acts as well as his books, excerpts from which he sometimes reads on stage.

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Phillip P. Peterson

Phillip P. Peterson worked as an engineer on booster rockets and as satellite program manager; he has also written popular science articles about space travel. At the 2015 Frankfurt Book Fair he received the first Kindle Storyteller Award. Characters and action take centerstage in his hardcore science fiction that profits from Peterson's technical background.

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Sergei Lukyanenko

Сергей Лукьяненко (Russian)
Szergej Lukjanyenko (Hungarian)
Sergejs Lukjaņenko (Latvian)
Sergey Lukyanenko
Sergej Luk'janenko (Italian)
Сергей Лукяненко (Bulgarian)
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Sergej Lukjaněnko (Czech)

Sergei Lukyanenko (as his name appears on books and films in U.S. markets) is a science-fiction and fantasy author, writing in Russian, and is arguably the most popular contemporary Russian sci-fi writer. His works often feature intense action-packed plots, interwoven with the moral dilemma of keeping one's humanity while being strong.

Lukyanenko is a prolific writer, releasing usually 1-2 books per year, as well as a number of a critical articles and short stories. Recently his works have been adapted into

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Donna Woolfolk Cross

Donna Woolfolk Cross graduated cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa, from the University of Pennsylvania in 1969 with a B.A. in English. She moved to London, England, after graduation, and worked as an editorial assistant for a small publishing house on Fleet Street, W.H. Allen and Company. Upon her return to the United States, Cross worked at Young and Rubicam, a Madison Avenue advertising firm, before going on to graduate school at UCLA where she earned a master's degree in Literature and Writing in 1972.

In 1973, Cross moved with her husband to upstate New York where she began teaching writing in a college English Department. Now writing is her fulltime career.

She is the author of two books on language, Word Abuse: How the Words We Use Use Us and Me

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Kazuaki Takano

Kazuaki Takano emerged from the film industry to become a best-selling author.
He began making films for himself when he was only in grade school, and as an adult worked for a time under the director Kihachi Okamoto.

After dropping out of university in Japan to gain first-hand experience in film and television production, he went to college in Los Angeles and worked in the movie industry there before returning to Japan.

His debut as a writer came in 2001 with Jusan kaidan (Thirteen Steps), which delves into the system of capital punishment; the novel won the Edogawa Rampo Award and sold over 400,000 copies.

Jenosaido (Genocide of One) was short-listed for the Naoki Prize in 2011, received the 2011 Yamada Futaro Prize, and took first place i

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John Irving

JOHN IRVING was born in Exeter, New Hampshire, in 1942. His first novel, Setting Free the Bears, was published in 1968, when he was twenty-six. He competed as a wrestler for twenty years, and coached wrestling until he was forty-seven.
Mr. Irving has been nominated for a National Book Award three times—winning once, in 1980, for his novel The World According to Garp. He received an O. Henry Award in 1981 for his short story “Interior Space.” In 2000, Mr. Irving won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for The Cider House Rules. In 2013, he won a Lambda Literary Award for his novel In One Person.
An international writer—his novels have been translated into more than thirty-five languages—John Irving lives in Toronto. His all-time best-selli

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Constantin Schreiber

Constantin Schreiber is a German journalist, news anchor, nonfiction author, and writer. Since January 2017, he has been working for ARD-aktuell and moderates editions of the Tagesschau, the Nachtmagazin and news in the Tagesthemen.

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C.J. Omololu

I write as C.J., but you can call me Cynthia. My YA novel DIRTY LITTLE SECRETS came out in early 2010. My next book TRANSCENDENCE came out in June of 2012, followed by the sequel INTUITION in June of 2013. My newest book is a YA thriller called THE THIRD TWIN and will be out in February 2015 followed by another standalone thriller RECOVERY in early 2016.

You might notice that I only give 4 or 5 star reviews. That isn't because I love everything, it's because I only review things I really love. As a writer, I know all that goes into making a book, and while a story might not strike a chord with me, who am I to say it won't with someone else? I hate tomatoes, but lots of people like them, and it's the same with a book. So, if I rate something

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Tibor Rode

Tibor Rode, 1974 geboren, arbeitet als Rechtsanwalt, Autor, Mediator und Lehrbeauftragter in Hamburg. Mit zwölf Jahren wurde er als jüngster Teilnehmer in das vom Bundesbildungsministerium initiierte Programm „Kreatives Schreiben" aufgenommen.

Neben Studium und Beruf war Tibor Rode lange Jahre für verschiedene Medien als Journalist tätig. Tibor Rode lebt mit Familie und Hund in Schleswig-Holstein bei Hamburg.

2013 erschien sein erfolgreiches Roman-Debüt "Das Rad der Ewigkeit". Der Thriller "Das Los" ist sein zweites Buch. Das "Mona Lisa Virus" wurde am 2016 zur Leipziger Buchmesse vorgestellt.

Mit ihm gelang Tibor Rode ein internationaler Bestseller. Im August 2018 legte er dann mit "Das Morpheus Gen" nach.

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Wolfgang Hohlbein

Wolfgang Hohlbein is a German author of science fiction, fantasy and horror fiction who lives near Neuss, North Rhine-Westphalia. His wife, Heike, is also a writer and often works with her husband. She often comes up with the story ideas and therefore is generally credited as co-author. Their daughter, Rebecca, is also a writer.

Writing short stories since age 15, Hohlbein was first recognized as an author after sending in a manuscript he and his wife had written at a fantasy and science fiction writing contest in 1982. They won and their book, Märchenmond (English title: "Magic Moon"), was published by Ueberreuter Publishing, soon becoming a bestseller and winning several awards. It is one of their greatest successes till today.

Many of hi

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Antonia Michaelis

Antonia Michaelis has lived and taught in India. She is the author of several award-winning books published in her native language German.

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Harald Lesch

Harald Lesch is a German physicist, astronomer, natural philosopher, author, television presenter, professor of physics at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich (LMU) and professor of natural philosophy at the Munich University of Philosophy. In the German speaking world, Lesch serves a similar role to that of Neil deGrasse Tyson, as a bridge between the scientific community and the public.

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