Reinhard Kaiser
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Born 1950 in Viersen (Rhineland, Germany). Novelist, essayist, translator of English and French fiction and non-fiction. Studied German language and literature, sociology and philosophy in Berlin, Paris, Cologne and Frankfurt. Lives in
Frankfurt. Among the authors whose books he translated are: Richard Sennett, Barbara Tuchman, Neil Postman, Isaiah Berlin, Groucho Marx, Irene Dische, Anne Tyler, Sam
Shepard, Georges Duby, Vivant Denon and “Walter: His first novel was Der kalte Sommer des Doktor Polidor (1991). Two rather different new books by him were published in 1996—one which took him five years (Koenigskinder. Eine wahre Liebe) and one which took him five months (Literarische Spaziergaenge im Internet. Buecher and Bibliotheken online).
