Draft:Cornelius Hartz

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Cornelius Hartz (born September 28, 1973 in Lübeck) is a German novelist, non-fiction writer and translator.

Biography

Cornelius Hartz studied Latin, ancient Greek and English literature at the University of Hamburg, where he completed his doctorate in Latin philology in 2007 under Dorothee Gall with a thesis on Greek and Latin lyric poetry. He then worked as an editorial assistant at Verlag Philipp von Zabern in Mainz and as a freelance editor and translator.

His first novel was published in 2008, followed by numerous non-fiction and other fiction titles. In addition to his work as an author, he also works as a translator and has translated works by Edward Carey, Daniel Mason, Catherine Nixey and Eli Cranor, among others. He has also provides a new translation of the poems of the Roman writer Catullus into German. Hartz currently works as a freelance writer and translator in Hamburg. He was one of the first authors of the Droste publishers' "Happiness Hotspots" ("Glücksorte") book series and has written three volumes for the series so far.

Hartz is a lecturer at the Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung Wolfenbüttel. He is a member of the Association of the German Association of Translators of Literary Works, VdÜ. In 2024, he was awarded the Hamburger Literaturpreis (Hamburg Literature Prize) for his translation of Daniel Mason's novel Up in the Woods.

Selected works

Non-fiction

• Glücksorte in Hamburg. Fahr hin und werd glücklich. Düsseldorf 2025, ISBN 978-3-7700-2526-8. (English translation by Kristina MacVicar: Happiness Hotspots in Hamburg. Düsseldorf 2020, ISBN 978-3-7700-2225-0.)

Weblinks

• Literature by and about Cornelius Hartz in the German National Library catalogue
• Website

References

Category:1973 births Category:21st-century German male writers Category:21st-century German writers Category:Translators to German Category:Translators from Latin Category:Translators from English Category:21st-century non-fiction writers Category:Literary editors