Alf Leue

Alf Leue (2014)

Alf Leue (pseudonym Lars Simon , born March 24, 1968 in Darmstadt , Hesse ) is a German writer .

Life

Alf Leue grew up in Langen . He studied business administration and political science in Frankfurt am Main and then worked in the IT industry for many years . In 2005 he emigrated to Västergötland ( Sweden ) and returned in 2011 to the Rhine-Main area , where he now lives and works as a freelance author and consultant.

Leues debut novel Shadow Feud was written during his stay in Sweden and was published in 2009. In the same year, his second novel The Curse of the Mechanic was published . In 2012, together with Heike Koschyk, he published the historical community novel Die vierte Zeugin in the Aufbau-Verlag , in which ten other authors wrote the story in addition to the two editors. 2013 he came as an author for dtv publishing company , the first of its Swedish comedy trilogy ( Elchscheiße , Cayman shit , Rentierköttel published). 2016 The first volume appeared there Urban fantasy - trilogy about the sorcerer's apprentice Lennart Malmkvist and its speaking during a thunderstorm Pug bölþorn .

Alf Leue was a member of the historical novel Quo Vadis group of authors , which dissolved in 2014, and was a member of the Fantastic Authors Network (PAN) until 2019 . He is a member of the Association of German Writers (VS). So far, numerous anthology articles and fifteen novels - some under (closed) pseudonyms - by and with the participation of him have been published.

Catalog raisonné

Under his own name

• Shadow feud . 2009, Sutton-Verlag, ISBN 3-8668-0426-1
• The Curse of the Mechanicus . 2011, Societäts-Verlag, ISBN 3-9429-2118-9
• The fourth witness (ed.). 2012, Aufbau-Verlag, ISBN 3-7466-2879-2

As Lars Simon

• Elk shit . 2014, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-4232-1508-9
• Caimankack . 2014, dtv publishing company, ISBN 3-4232-1554-2
• Reindeer droppings . 2015, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-4232-1609-3
• Lennart Malmkvist and the rather strange pug of Buri Bolmen . 2016, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-4232-1651-4
• Lennart Malmkvist and the absolutely wonderful guest from Trindemossen . 2017, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-4232-1704-9
• Gustafssons Jul . 2017, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-4232-1695-6
• Lennart Malmkvist and the surprisingly perfidious plan of Olav Tryggvason . 2018, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 3-4232-1760-X
• Gustafssons Jul . 2018, dtv large print, ISBN 978-3-423-25399-4
• The second-hand bookshop of dreams . 2020, dtv Verlagsgesellschaft, ISBN 978-3-423-21931-0

Anthology contributions (excerpt)

• Anthology of Greed . 2010, Michason & May, ISBN 3-8628-6006-X
• The encounter and other gloomy winter legends , 2010, Sieben-Verlag, ISBN 3-9402-3592-X
• Three day rides from Lake Constance . 2011, Gmeiner-Verlag, ISBN 3-8392-1216-2
• Kühner Kosmos: short prose. 2011, Landbeck Verlag, ISBN 3-9428-7400-8
• Vacation reading book 2018 (as Lars Simon), dtv, ISBN 3-4232-1729-4

Awards

• 2008 - Goldenen Kleeblatts, short story award of the Burgenland provincial government with the contribution peace killers
• 2009 - 2nd place in the short story competition of the authors' association Quo Vadis with the historical short story Aristotle
• 2010 - 3rd place at the Jena Radio Play Festival with the short story Höhenflug set to music by Martin L. Schäfer

Web links

• Literature by and about Alf Leue in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author page of Alf Leues pseudonym Lars Simon at dtv
• Alf Leue at Literaturport
• Alf Leue's pseudonym Lars Simon at Literaturport

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Article about the genesis of the collective novel in the magazine '' Federwelt '', edition 95. In: autorenwelt.de. Retrieved September 5, 2017 . 
2. ↑ Book title on the website of the Aufbau-Verlag. In: aufbau-verlag.de. Retrieved September 5, 2017 . 
3. ↑ Web special for the series at dtv. In: dtv.de. Retrieved September 5, 2017 . 
4. ↑ Web special for the series at dtv. In: dtv.de. Retrieved September 5, 2017 . 
5. ^ Fantastic authors network. In: phantastik-autoren.net. Retrieved September 5, 2017 .