What is Klaus Ebner?
[[File:KlausEbner.jpg|thumb|200px|right|''Klaus Ebner (2008)'']] '''Klaus Ebner''' (born August 8, 1964) is an [[Austria]]n writer of [[short story|short stories]], [[essay]]s and [[poetry]], and a translator. Born and raised in Vienna, he began writing at an early age. He started sending in stories to magazines in the 1980s, and also published articles and books about computer software after 1989. Ebner's poetry is written in [[German language|German]] and [[Catalan language|Catalan]]. He is a member of several Austrian writers associations, including the Grazer Autorenversammlung. His works include cultural essays on Catalan topics, and stories about Jewish traditions. His first book of short stories was printed in 2007. In 2008, Ebner published the short novel ''[[Hominid (novel)|Hominide]]''. He has gotten several literary prizes, among them the Viennese ''Wiener Werkstattpreis'' in 2007. Austrian critics, such as [[Wolfgang Ratz]], have praised Ebner's prose-style. The writer lives in Vienna with his family. == Biography == In the 1980s, he studied [[Romance languages]], [[German language|German]] and [[Translation]] at the University of [[Vienna]]. He also worked for a literary group and a magazine for [[literature]] in Vienna.<ref>[http://aleph.onb.ac.at/F/82X8RDNQT9A8A4PHJP11T8T4FGB5VTPYC51FRS3HKJR6SCX7M2-01568?func=full-set-set&set_number=057756&set_entry=000008&format=999 Austrian National Library; see entries about the magazine ''Texte''] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110120022123/http://aleph.onb.ac.at/F/82X8RDNQT9A8A4PHJP11T8T4FGB5VTPYC51FRS3HKJR6SCX7M2-01568?func=full-set-set&set_number=057756&set_entry=000008&format=999 |date=2011-01-20 }}, Vienna 1983-1986.</ref> Afterwards he worked as a translator, language teacher and IT project manager. In the 1990s, he published articles and books about software and computer networks; these books were in German,<ref>The books were published by Data Becker, Markt & Technik, IWT, TEWI and Microsoft Press between 1989 and 2004.</ref> but he a