Markus Heitz
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Markus Heitz is a German
Germans
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 fantasy
Fantasy
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 author, most famous for his four-book "Dwarves" saga. Heitz has in the last couple of years gained popularity within Europe
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, due to the English translations of his books. As of October 2010, two out of four (four yet released in Heitz's native Germany
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) of the "Dwarves"-books have been translated into English. The third, "Revenge of the Dwarves", is due for release in late 2010.

Biography

Markus Heitz was born in Homburg
Homburg
-In Germany:* Homburg, Saarland, capital of the Saarpfalz district of Saarland* Bad Homburg, town and spa in Hesse* Homburg Forest, a hill range in Lower Saxony* Homburg, a quarter of Triefenstein, Bavaria...

, Germany, in 1971. He studied history, literature, and the German language. He now lives in Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken
Zweibrücken is a city in Rhineland-Palatinate, Germany, on the Schwarzbach river.- Name :Zweibrücken appears in Latin texts as Geminus Pons and Bipontum, in French texts as Deux-Ponts. The name derives from Middle High German Zweinbrücken...

, Germany.

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