Daniel Hahn
Author of The Ultimate Teen Book Guide
About the Author
Daniel Hahn is a writer, researcher, translator and editor who lives in London
Works by Daniel Hahn
The Tower Menagerie: The Amazing 600-Year History of the Royal Collection of Wild and Ferocious Beasts Kept at the… (2003) 151 copies, 5 reviews
Lunatics, Lovers and Poets: Twelve Stories after Cervantes and Shakespeare (2016) — Editor — 36 copies
Staatszielbestimmungen im integrierten Bundesstaat: Normative Bedeutung und Divergenzen (2010) 2 copies
Wie mit hilfe von empowerment ein Mobilitätstraining in Werkstätten für behinderte Menschen möglich ist (2015) 2 copies
Resistance 1 copy
The Refuge 1 copy
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- Canonical name
- Hahn, Daniel
- Birthdate
- 1973-11-26
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Occupations
- Author
Editor
Translator - Organizations
- Translators Association of the Society of Authors
The British Centre for Literary Translation
The Society of Authors
English PEN (Pinter prize judge|2022) - Awards and honors
- The Independent Foreign Fiction Prize (2007)
- Short biography
- A British writer, editor and translator, Daniel Hahn is the author of a number of works of non-fiction, including biographies, history, and reading guides and for children and teenagers.
His translation of The Book of Chameleons by José Eduardo Agualusa won the Independent Foreign Fiction Prize in 2007. He is also the translator of Pelé's autobiography, and of work by novelists José Luís Peixoto, Philippe Claudel, María Dueñas, José Saramago, Eduardo Halfon, Gonçalo M. Tavares and others.
A former chair of the Translators Association and national programme director of the British Centre for Literary Translation, he is currently chair of the Society of Authors and on the board of trustees of a number of organisations working with literature, literacy and free expression, including English PEN. He is one of the judges for the 2017 Man Booker International Prize.
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- Works
- 19
- Also by
- 23
- Members
- 639
- Popularity
- #39,445
- Rating
- 3.8
- Reviews
- 37
- ISBNs
- 35
- Languages
- 4
The author mocks anyone and anything he can't explain: the Bible, people who believe in (and probably saw) dragons/dinosaurs, etc. He makes sweeping blanket statements that assume everyone agrees with him, even though an ever-increasing amount of legit scientists see too many flaws with macro-evolution to make it seem plausible.
Many times throughout the book, he comes to completely wonky and opposite-of-common-sense conclusions. For instance, several times he talks about people seeing and drawing dragons---yet he insists they're not real. I don't know, but an eye witness is a pretty solid piece of evidence in a court trial---let alone many over several centuries. 3/4 or so in, I was ready to be done.
All that aside, I did learn a lot. I was especially intrigued by the bestiaries---I didn't know about those. I also thought it was really strange that more concern was given to animal welfare than to that of children during Victorian times.… (more)