Gisbert Haefs

Gisbert Haefs (born 9 January 1950) is a German writer in several genres and translator. He has written historical novels such as ''Alexander'', won both the Deutscher Science Fiction Preis and Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis in science fiction, and placed at the Deutscher Krimi Preis for crime fiction. As a translator he worked on a much criticized effort at translating works of Jorge Luis Borges into German.

His sister is the writer and translator Gabriele Haefs. Provided by Wikipedia