Dietmar Dath

Dietmar Dath is a writer, journalist, and translator. He was editor-in-chief of the pop culture magazine “Spex” and works as author and editor for the arts and culture section of the “Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung”. His non-fiction book “Niegeschichte”, published by Matthes & Seitz in 2019, explores the science fiction genre across 1000 pages. The same publisher released his current novel “Skyrmionen Oder: A Fucking Army”, of similar length, about language and technology. His novels have been translated into English, Italian, and Korean, and his work has received numerous awards; most recently, he was awarded the Alfred Kerr Prize for Literary Criticism at the Leipzig Book Fair this year.