Pete Smith (Author)

Pete Smith. Photo: Maria Harsa

Pete Smith (born August 21, 1960 in Soest ) is a German writer .

Life

Pete Smith grew up in Soest as the son of a Spaniard and an Englishman. He attended Aldegrever High School , where he graduated from high school in 1980. After several months in London , he enrolled at the Westphalian Wilhelms University in Münster to study German, philosophy and journalism, which he completed in 1987 with a magister artium . After a traineeship at Westfälischer Anzeiger , he worked for a few years as the culture editor of the Ärzte Zeitung in Neu-Isenburg before settling down as a freelance writer in Frankfurt am Main .

Smith writes novels, short stories, essays, and books for children and young people , including a. have been published by Ueberreuter Verlag and some have been translated into several languages. Among other awards, he received the Robert Gernhardt Prize in 2012 for his novel project Endspiel , which was published by Societäts-Verlag in 2015 . Since 2015 he has also published new editions of his out of print titles in the Gegenwind edition .

Pete Smith lives in Frankfurt am Main.

bibliography

Stories, novels

• Who distinguishes the dancer from the dance? . Novel. Klaus Bielefeld Verlag , Friedland 1998. ISBN 978-3-932325-36-6 .
• Mr. Miramar . Narrative. Edition Eigensinn, Mainaschaff 1999. ISBN 978-3-930684-37-3 .
• David and Frederik . Narrative. Edition Eigensinn, Mainaschaff 1999. ISBN 978-3-930684-36-6 .
• Endgame . Novel. Societäts-Verlag , Frankfurt am Main 2015. ISBN 978-3-95542-120-5 .
• The girl from Bethmannpark . Novel. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2016. ISBN 978-3-95542-191-5 .
• Learn to fly . Novel. Societäts-Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2019. ISBN 978-3-95542-355-1 .

Children's and young people's literature

• The boy with the common face . Quantenspringer Verlag, Frankfurt / Main and Hamburg 1998.
• The secret of Gramsee Castle . Ueberreuter Verlag , Vienna 2002.

TB new edition: Edition Gegenwind - BoD , Norderstedt 2015. ISBN 978-3-7347-4430-3 .

• My friend Jeremias , illustrated by Hans-Jürgen Feldhaus . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2004.

TB new edition: Edition Gegenwind - BoD, Norderstedt 2015. ISBN 978-3-7347-3645-2 .

• Swap giraffe for friend , illustrated by Rooobert Bayer . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2004

TB new edition: Edition Gegenwind - BoD, Norderstedt 2015. ISBN 978-3-7347-3589-9 .

• 1227 Lost in the Middle Ages . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2004.

New TB edition: Edition Gegenwind - BoD, Norderstedt 2015. ISBN 978-3-7347-9803-0 .

• 168 Lost in Roman times . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2006.

New TB edition: Edition Gegenwind - BoD, Norderstedt 2015. ISBN 978-3-7386-1513-5 .

• 2033 Lost in the future . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2008.

New TB edition: Edition Gegenwind - BoD, Norderstedt 2015. ISBN 978-3-7386-2416-8 .

• So full of anger . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2009. ISBN 978-3-596-81008-6

Amok - The way of the warrior . TB reissue. Edition Gegenwind - BoD, Norderstedt 2019. ISBN 978-3-7481-8482-9 .

• The others are poor . Ueberreuter Verlag, Vienna 2011. ISBN 978-3-8000-5635-4 .

TB new edition, Oetinger Taschenbuch , Hamburg 2013. ISBN 978-3-8415-0219-3 .

TB new edition, Edition Gegenwind - BoD, Norderstedt 2019. ISBN 978-3-7481-9388-3 .

Awards

• 1997: 1st prize in the literary competition " German Yearbook for Authors " for Melzer's idea
• 2005: Ten special books on Andersentag - including 1227 lost in the Middle Ages
• 2010: 3rd place at the Gerhard Beier Prize for So full of anger
• 2012: Robert Gernhardt price for his project final
• 2015: Invitation to the 17th Irseer Pegasus
• 2015: Finalist at the 8th Wartholz Literature Prize
• 2016: 2nd prize at the Stockstadt literary competition
• 2017: Special prize at the Stockstadt literary competition

Web links

• Literature by and about Pete Smith in the catalog of the German National Library
• Official homepage of the author
• Short biography and information on the work of Pete Smith (author) at Literaturport
• Rosemarie Tuchelt: At the table with Pete Smith, “Endplayer” , Interview with Pete Smith in the series Doppelkopf des hr2-kultur on April 14, 2015