Oliver Plaschka

Oliver Plaschka (* 1975 in Speyer ) is a German writer and translator .

Life

Plaschka studied English and ethnology in Heidelberg and graduated in 2009 with a doctorate on pastoral motifs in fantastic literature. He worked as a lecturer at the University of Heidelberg . Since 2013 he has also been writing for Perry Rhodan Neo . In 2015 he was a guest at the Erlangen Poetics College.

bibliography

• Fairwater or the Mirrors of Mr. Bartholomew. Verlag Feder und Schwert , 2007, ISBN 978-3-86762-011-6 .
• with Ulrich Drees: Narnia - the role play. Brendow, 2008, ISBN 978-3-86506-214-7 .
• with Matthias Mösch and Alexander Flory: The Crystal Palace. Pen and Sword, 2010, ISBN 978-3-86762-076-5 .
• The magicians of Montparnasse. Klett-Cotta , 2010, ISBN 978-3-608-93874-6 .
• The light behind the clouds. Klett-Cotta, 2013, ISBN 978-3-608-93916-3 .

• The barren land and other stories from the end of the world. Verlag Torsten Low, 2015, ISBN 978-3-940036-33-9 .
• Marco Polo: To the end of the world. Droemer , 2016, ISBN 978-3-426-28138-3 .
• Fairwater: Mr. Bartholomew's mirrors. revised new edition. Knaur , 2018, ISBN 978-3-426-52169-4 .
• with M. Mösch and A. Flory: Der Kristallpalast. edited new edition. Verlag ohneohren, Vienna 2018, ISBN 978-3-903006-51-5 .
• The guardian of the winds. Klett-Cotta, 2019, ISBN 978-3-608-96243-7 .

Translations (selection)

• Stephen Chbosky : So this is my life. (The Perks of Being a Wallflower). 2011.
• Marcel Theroux : Far North. 2011.
• Cory Doctorow : Little Brother - Homeland (Homeland). 2013.
• Michael J. Sullivan : Time Fugue (Hollow Earth). 2015.
• Ray Bradbury : S is for Space. 2017.
• Peter S. Beagle : In Calabria (In Calabria). 2018.

Awards

• 2008 Deutscher Phantastik Preis : Best German-language debut novel for Fairwater
• 2014 German Fantastic Prize: Shortlist nomination for The Light Behind the Clouds
• 2014 Fantastic Literature Prize Seraph : Shortlist nomination for The Light Behind the Clouds
• 2016 Deutscher Phantastik Preis: best German-language short story for Das öde Land
• 2017 Golden Homer in the Historical Biography category for Marco Polo: To the End of the World

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Oliver Plaschka: Lost Arcadia: The Pastoral Motif in English and American Fantastic Literature - HP Lovecraft, James Branch Cabell, Mervyn Peake, William Gibson. Retrieved December 12, 2016 . 
2. ↑ Oliver Plaschka - Perrypedia. In: www.perrypedia.proc.org. Retrieved December 12, 2016 . 
3. ↑ Erlanger Poetik-Kolleg: Home. In: poetik-kolleg.phil.uni-erlangen.de. Retrieved December 12, 2016 . 
4. ↑ German Fantastic Prize. Retrieved June 7, 2019 . 
5. ↑ The 2014 winners | German Fantastic Prize. April 22, 2016, accessed June 7, 2019 . 
6. ↑ phantastische-akademie.de
7. ↑ The 2016 winners | German Fantastic Prize. August 31, 2017, accessed June 7, 2019 . 
8. ↑ The HOMER Gala 2017. February 26, 2018, accessed on June 7, 2019 . 

Web links

• Literature by and about Oliver Plaschka in the catalog of the German National Library
• Oliver Plaschka in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
• Oliver Plaschka's website