# Simon Urban

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{{Short description|German novelist}}
'''Simon Urban''' (born in 1975) is a German novelist.

Simon Urban was born in [Hagen](/source/Hagen) in 1975.<ref name=":1">{{cite news |last=Seidler |first=Ulrich |date=11 February 2021 |url=https://www.fr.de/kultur/literatur/simon-urban-wie-alles-begann-und-wer-dabei-umkam-todesurteil-fuer-die-boese-oma-90200537.html |title=Simon Urban: "Wie alles begann und wer dabei umkam" – Todesurteil für die böse Oma |newspaper=[Frankfurter Rundschau](/source/Frankfurter_Rundschau) |language=de |access-date=28 November 2023 }}</ref> He studied at the [Leipzig University](/source/Leipzig_University)'s [German Institute for Literature](/source/German_Institute_for_Literature), worked in advertising and published short stories before he debuted as a novelist. His first novel was ''{{ill|Plan D (novel)|lt=Plan D|de|Plan D (Roman)}}'' (2011), a political and ironic thriller set in an alternative present where [East Germany](/source/East_Germany) never fell.<ref>{{cite news |last=Graf |first=Guido |date=13 August 2011 |url=https://www.welt.de/print/die_welt/vermischtes/article13542486/Neues-aus-der-DDR-die-es-noch-gibt.html |title=Neues aus der DDR, die es noch gibt |newspaper=[Die Welt](/source/Die_Welt) |language=de |access-date=28 November 2023 }}</ref> His second novel ''Gondwana'' (2014) is a satirical murder mystery set on a Pacific island where people from different religions try to co-exist in an experiment where they adopt every prohibition from each other's religions.<ref>{{cite news |last=Magenau |first=Jörg |date=20 June 2014 |url=https://www.deutschlandfunkkultur.de/science-fiction-krimi-im-dienste-der-entheiligung-100.html |title=Im Dienste der Entheiligung |language=de |publisher=[Deutschlandfunk Kultur](/source/Deutschlandfunk_Kultur) |access-date=28 November 2023 }}</ref> ''Wie alles begann und wer dabei umkam'' (2021) is a [picaresque novel](/source/picaresque_novel) about [death penalty](/source/death_penalty) and legal paradoxes.<ref name=":1" /> In 2023 he published the [social novel](/source/social_novel) ''[Zwischen Welten](/source/Zwischen_Welten_(novel))'' which he co-wrote with [Juli Zeh](/source/Juli_Zeh). It consists of e-mails and phone messages between a woman who runs a farm and a man who works at a newspaper; they disagree about many matters but both adore the writer [Martin Walser](/source/Martin_Walser).<ref>{{cite news |last=Knipphals |first=Dirk |date=28 January 2023 |url=https://taz.de/Neuer-Roman-von-Juli-Zeh-und-Simon-Urban/!5908955/ |title=Debatten bis aufs Blut |newspaper=[Die Tageszeitung](/source/Die_Tageszeitung) |language=de |access-date=28 November 2023 }}</ref>

==Publications==
* 2011: ''{{ill|Plan D (novel)|lt=Plan D|de|Plan D (Roman)}}''
* 2014: ''Gondwana''
* 2021: ''Wie alles begann und wer dabei umkam''
* 2023: ''[Zwischen Welten](/source/Zwischen_Welten_(novel))''

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