Gisbert Haefs

{{Short description|German writer and translator}}

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Gisbert Haefs (born 9 January 1950) is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as Alexander,{{cite book|author=Walter Pape|title=1870/71-1989/90: German Unifications and the Change of Literary Discourse|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=D5cpzLiRgoYC&pg=PA222|date=1 January 1993|publisher=Walter de Gruyter|isbn=978-3-11-013878-8|pages=222–}} won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis[http://www.dsfp.de/?s=gisbert Deutscher Science Fiction Preis page on "Gisbert Haefs" (German)] and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis{{Cite web |url=http://www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/1981-1990/KLP_1990_Preistraeger.htm |title=homepage of the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, page for 1990 (German) |access-date=2014-08-16 |archive-date=2015-02-18 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150218103152/http://www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/1981-1990/KLP_1990_Preistraeger.htm |url-status=dead }} in science fiction, and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis[http://www.krimilexikon.de/dkp/97.html Official website of the Deutscher Krimi Preis, page for 1997 (German)] for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.{{cite book|author=Edna Aizenberg|title=Borges and His Successors: The Borgesian Impact on Literature and the Arts|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=NvIjGUvQdVUC&pg=PA75|year=1990|publisher=University of Missouri Press|isbn=978-0-8262-0712-8|pages=75–76}}