Deutscher Science Fiction Preis is a German literary award.
 Together with the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis, it is one of the most prestigious awards for German science fiction literature.
 The award was established in 1985 by the , a German Science Fiction society.
 Each year, the award is given to the best German science fiction short story and the best German novel from the previous year.
Simplicius Simplicissimus (German: "Der abenteuerliche Simplicissimus Teutsch" ) is a picaresque novel of the lower Baroque style, written in 1668 by Hans Jakob Christoffel von Grimmelshausen and probably published the same year (although bearing the date 1669).
 Inspired by the events and horrors of the Thirty Years' War which devastated Germany from 1618 to 1648, it is regarded as the first adventure novel in the German language and the first German novel masterpiece.
Correction is a novel by Thomas Bernhard, originally published in German in 1975, and first published in English translation in 1979 by Alfred A. Knopf.
The Amber Witch is a German novel published by Wilhelm Meinhold (1797–1851) in 1838.
 Its German title is "Maria Schweidler, die Bernsteinhexe".
 The novel was originally published as a literary hoax which purported to be an actual 17th-century chronicle.
 Meinhold later admitted to the hoax but had some difficulty in proving that he was its author.
 In 1844, it was published in Britain as "The Amber Witch" in two English translations: one by E. A. Friedlander and another, more enduring, translation by Lucie, Lady Duff-Gordon.
Death in Rome (German: "Der Tod in Rom: Roman" ) is a 1954 German novel by Wolfgang Koeppen, who belonged to the literary generation of West Germany which had to revive the devastated cultural landscape after twelve years of the "brown plague" and the ruin of the war, and, was one of the first artists to embroider the new social and political realities of the country when the wave of chauvinistic and revanchist psychosis broke out.
 An exploration of themes associated with the Holocaust, German guilt, conflict between generations, and, the silencing of the past, it is, after ' (German: "Tauben im Gras: Roman" , 1951, which recreates a typical day in Munich in 1948) and ' (German: "Das Treibhaus: Roman" , 1953, which deals with the corruption of the Bonn government), the third work of the so-called "Trilogy of Failure" (German: "Trilogie des Scheiterns" ), about postwar life in West Germany, with which Koeppen established himself as an important figure in German post-war literature.
 It opens with a quotation from Dante Alighieri's "Inferno": "Il mal seme d'Adamo", followed by the last sentence from "Death in Venice": "Und noch desselben Tages empfing eine respektvoll erschütterte Welt die Nachricht von seinem Tode".
The Holy Sinner (in German, "Der Erwählte") is a German novel written by Thomas Mann.
 Published in 1951, it is based on the medieval verse epic "Gregorius" written by the German Minnesinger Hartmann von Aue (c. 1165-1210).
 The book explores a subject that fascinated Thomas Mann to the end of his life – the origins of evil and evil's connection with magic.
 Here Mann uses a medieval legend about "the exceeding mercy of God and the birth of the blessed Pope Gregory" as he used the biblical account of Joseph as the basis for Joseph and His Brothers – illuminating with his post-modernist "irony" the nature and relevance of medieval philosophy to the modern world (said connexion being "illuminated" is, in fact, ironic – in the classical sense).
Die Feuerzangenbowle ("The Fire Tongs Bowl", "The Punch Bowl") is a German novel, later adapted into several films, which tells the story of a famous writer going undercover as a pupil at a small town gymnasium after his friends tell him that he missed out on the best part of growing up by being educated at home.
 The story in the book takes place during the Weimar Republic in Germany.
 The novel by Heinrich Spoerl was published in 1933 and was adapted to film three times.
 The 1944 movie of the same name directed by Helmut Weiss is the most notable adaptation of the material.
 This German comedy classic was one of the last big movie productions in Germany before the end of the Nazi era and has gained cult status at German universities since the 1980s.
René is a short novella by François-René de Chateaubriand, which first appeared in 1802.
 The work had an immense impact on early Romanticism, comparable to that of Goethe's "The Sorrows of Young Werther".
 Like the German novel, it deals with a sensitive and passionate young man who finds himself at odds with contemporary society.
 "René" was first published as part of Chateaubriand's "Génie du christianisme" along with another novella, "Atala", although it was in fact an excerpt from a long prose epic the author had composed between 1793 and 1799 called "Les Natchez", which would not be made public until 1826.
 "René" enjoyed such immediate popularity that it was republished separately in 1805 along with "Atala".
Thomas Bernhard (] ; born Nicolaas Thomas Bernhard; 9 February 1931 – 12 February 1989) was an Austrian novelist, playwright and poet.
 Bernhard, whose body of work has been called "the most significant literary achievement since World War II," is widely considered to be one of the most important German-speaking authors of the postwar era.
Agnes is a 1998 German novel by Peter Stamm and was considered to be his literary debut.
 The book was first published in German on August 1, 1998, through Arche Verlag and follows a romance between a nameless older man and Agnes, a young woman that is almost half his age.
 Of the book, Stamm commented that he saw the book's landscape and climate as an important way of setting the tone for the novel and its characters.

Question: When was the author of the German novel Correction born?
Answer: 9 February 1931