Pol Sax (born 1960) is a
Luxembourg
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ish writer living in
Berlin
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whose German-language novel ''U5'' won the
Servais Prize for Luxembourg literature in 2009.
Biography
Born on 29 January 1960 at
Schifflange
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, the commune has a population of 11,363.
Schifflange was formed on 15 August 1876, when it was detached from the commune of ...
in south-eastern Luxembourg, Sax attended primary school in Mondercange, the ''École professionelle'' in Esch-sur-Alzette, the ''Ecole des arts et métiers'' in
Luxembourg City
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, and the Lycée des garçons in Esch-sur-Alzette. He went on to study German and philosophy at the
University of Heidelberg
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and at the
Université libre de Bruxelles
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.
["CNL: Pol Sax"]
''Centre national de littérature''. Retrieved 11 February 2011.
From 1994 to 1996, Sax was initially employed in restaurants and as an operator in a pasta factory in Heidelberg from 1994 to 1996. He then worked until 1999 as a bartender. Since 2001, he has been living in
Berlin
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, where he works as a freelance writer, contributing reviews of German literature on authors such as Bernhard Schlink and Sven Regener.
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Literature
In 2008, Pax made his literary debut with the novel ''U5'', named after the U-Bahn in Berlin, which is the backdrop for a story of complex relationships between three marginalized figures. Artistic creation, living on the fringes of middle-class society, and the emotions such as love, loneliness, and human relationships are central features of the novel which also deals with death and guilt.
In 2002, Sax was awarded a literary scholarship by the Förderkreises Deutscher Schriftsteller in Baden-Württemberg.[
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References
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Luxembourgian writers
1960 births
Luxembourgian novelists
Living people