Life line

Night work on the Rambla of Figueres

Harald V. Bergander, born 1944 in Breslau/Silesia, spent his childhood and youth in Lower Saxony and Baden-Württemberg. Completed an apprenticeship as a bookseller. Lived and worked in Hanover, Munich, Vienna, Lausanne, Madrid, from 1973 as a translator (German, Spanish, French) in Las Palmas on the Canary Islands and in Eivissa (Balearic Islands). Since 1990 resident in Salzburg (Austria) and Catalonia. Happily married to the same woman  –  without children  –  since 1972. Takes great pleasure in making up stories and occasionally assembling electronic devices, even if both are more or less pointless. Loves his wife, drinks red wine, is a pipe smoker, plays chess and appreciates long conversations with horses and cats.

In addition to his main job, the author has been writing novels for forty years. Despite intensive and positive contacts with publishers and agencies, none of his manuscripts have found the traditional path to the market.

In the digital age, the high-quality variant of the cost-saving books-on-demand principle using electronic artwork offers an equivalent alternative to the conventional preparation and publication of a text in purely commercially orientated publishing houses. In this way, four novels have been published by BoD, Norderstedt.