Pol Sax

Pol Sax ( * 1960 in Schifflingen ) is a Luxembourgian writer.

Life and career

He studied German and philosophy at the University of Heidelberg and at the Université libre de Bruxelles. Pol Sax was first in the catering trade, including as operator of Heidelberger noodle factory 1994-1996. Subsequently he worked until 1999 as a barman.

Since 2001, Pol Sax is a freelance author in Berlin. He writes reviews on German literature for the Saarland Radio, as well as Internet forums such as fackel.de. In 2008 he debuted with the novel U5 (Ivory publisher), named after the subway line in Berlin, which is the backdrop for a complex relationship story about three socially marginal figures. The artistic process of creation, life on the edge of bourgeois forms of life and social and communicative searching movements between love longing, loneliness and relationship memories are central features of the novel, death and guilt discussed.

For the work on the novel project Pulilux / The Flying Robert, an unemployed painter and bachelors who accepts a job as a representative for Vorwerk vacuum cleaner, Pol Sax received the scholarship of the Sponsorship German writers in Baden- Württemberg in 2002. Furthermore him in 2009, the Luxembourg literary prize Prix Servais was awarded.

Award

• 2009: Prix Servais

Bibliography

• Pol Sax: U5 novel, Ivory Verlag, Berlin 2008, ISBN 978-3-932245-94-7