Frank Schätzing

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Frank Schätzing

Born	(1957-05-28) May 28, 1957 Cologne, West Germany
Occupation	Novelist
Genres	Science Fiction, Horror, Thriller
www.frank-schaetzing.com

Frank Schätzing ( listen (help·info); born May 28, 1957), is a German writer, mostly known for his best-selling science fiction novel The Swarm (2004).

Life

Schätzing was born in Cologne and studied communication studies; he later ran his own company, an advertising agency named INTEVI, in Cologne. Schätzing became a writer in 1990, and penned several novellas and satires. His first published novel was the historical Tod und Teufel (Death and Devil) in 1995, and in 2000 his thriller Lautlos.

Schätzing achieved his greatest success in 2004 with the science fiction thriller The Swarm.

Works

Books

Tod und Teufel (1995), ISBN 3-442-45531-6
Mordshunger (1996), ISBN 3-924491-71-2
Die dunkle Seite (1997), ISBN 3-924491-85-2
Keine Angst (1999), ISBN 3-924491-88-7
Lautlos (2000), ISBN 3-89705-211-3
Der Schwarm (2004), ISBN 3-462-03374-3
Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum (2006), ISBN 3-462-03690-4
Die tollkühnen Abenteuer der Ducks auf hoher See (ed.) (2006), ISBN 3-936384-24-X
Limit (2009), ISBN 978-3-462-03704-3

Audiobooks

Tod und Teufel (1999/2003)
Keine Angst (2001)
Der Schwarm (2004)
Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum (2006)

Prizes

2005 Goldene Feder (Der Schwarm)
2005 Deutscher Science Fiction Preis (Der Schwarm)
2004 "Corine" (in the category belletristic literature)

External links

Frank Schätzing in the German National Library catalogue
Biography (German)
Reviews of Nachrichten aus einem unbekannten Universum, Der Schwarm, Lautlos, Die dunkle Seite, Tod und Teufel (German)
Review of Der Schwarm audiobook (German)
Biography at Buchtips.net (German)
Der Schwarm official website
Uma Thurman buys rights to 'The Swarm'
The Swarm at the Internet Movie Database

Recipients of the Bancarella Prize

Ernest Hemingway (1953)
Giovannino Guareschi (1954)
Hervé Le Boterf (1955)
Han Suyin (1956)
Werner Keller (1957)
Boris Pasternak (1958)
Heinrich Gerlach (1959)
Bonaventura Tecchi (1960)
André Schwarz-Bart (1961)
Cornelius Ryan (1962)
Caccia Dominioni (1963)
Giulio Bedeschi (1964)
Luigi Preti (1965)
Vincenzo Pappalettera (1966)
Indro Montanelli (1967)
Isaac Bashevis Singer (1968)
Peter Colosimo (1969)
Oriana Fallaci (1970)
Enzo Biagi (1971)
Alberto Bevilacqua (1972)
Roberto Gervaso (1973)
Giuseppe Berto (1974)
Susanna Agnelli (1975)
Carlo Cassola (1976)
Giorgio Saviane (1977)
Alex Haley (1978)
Massimo Grillandi (1979)
Maurice Denuziere (1980)
Sergio Zavoli (1981)
Gary Jennings (1982)
Renato Barneschi (1983)
Luciano De Crescenzo (1984)
Giulio Andreotti (1985)
Pasquale Festa Campanile (1986)
Enzo Biagi (1987)
Cesare Marchi (1988)
Umberto Eco (1989)
Vittorio Sgarbi (1990)
Antonio Spinosa (1991)
Alberto Bevilacqua (1992)
Carmen Covito (1993)
John Grisham (1994)
Jostein Gaarder (1995)
Stefano Zecchi (1996)
Giampaolo Pansa (1997)
Paco Ignacio Taibo (1998)
Ken Follett (1999)
Michael Connelly (2000)
Andrea Camilleri (2001)
Federico Audisio (2002)
Alessandra Appiano (2003)
Bruno Vespa (2004)
Gianrico Carofiglio (2005)
Andrea Vitali (2006)
Frank Schätzing (2007)
Valerio Massimo Manfredi (2008)
Donato Carrisi (2009)
Elizabeth Strout (2010)
Mauro Corona (2011)
Marcello Simoni (2012)

Authority control	WorldCat VIAF: 66707256 LCCN: n2006034842 GND: 115647058 SUDOC: 077610873 BNF: cb14560286x NDL: 01101116

Persondata
Name	Schatzing, Frank
Alternative names
Short description	German writer
Date of birth	May 28, 1957
Place of birth	Cologne, Germany
Date of death
Place of death

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