Gert Prokop (born 11 June 1932 in

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, died 1 March 1994 in

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from suicide) was a German writer of science fiction and crime fiction. He spent much of his life in the former East Germany. In crime fiction one of his best known works is "Detective Pinky" about an American boy who dreams of being like

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and at least one of his crime novels was filmed. His science fiction made use of social criticism and

dystopia A dystopia (lit. "bad place") is an imagined world or society in which people lead wretched, dehumanized, fearful lives. It is an imagined place (possibly state) in which everything is unpleasant or bad, typically a totalitarian or environmen ...

n forms. In 1990 he has won the

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(best short story).

Crime fiction

*''Der Tod des Reporters'', 1973 *''Einer muß die Leiche sein'', 1976 (filmed 1978, Director:

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) *''So blond, so schön, so tot'', 1994

Books for children

*''Der Drache mit den veilchenblauen Augen'', 1974 *''Gute-Nacht-Geschichten für verträumte Kinder'', 1975 *''Der kleine Riese und andere Märchen'', Kinderbuch *''Die Maus im Fenster'', 1980 *''Detektiv Pinky'', 1982 (filmed 2001 as ') *''Der Hausflug'', 1989

Science fiction

*''Wer stiehlt schon Unterschenkel?'' 1977 (aka ''Der Tod der Unsterblichen'', 1984) *''Der Samenbankraub'', 1983 *''Die Phrrks'', 1988 *''Das todsichere Ding'', 1988 *''Null minus unendlich'', 1990

References

External links

German website
German crime fiction writers German science fiction writers 1932 births 1994 suicides 1994 deaths Suicides in Germany 20th-century German novelists German male novelists 20th-century German male writers {{Germany-novelist-stub