Georg Klein (born 1953 in Augsburg) is a German novelist. He lives in Ditzumerverlaat (Bunde), Lower Saxony. His wife Katrin de Vries is also a writer. In September 2012 he was keynote speaker at the British Council sponsored Edinburgh World Writers' Conference in Berlin.[1][2] Having worked for many years as a ghost-writer Klein was discovered in 2001 with his detective story Barbar Rosa.[3][4]