Pol Sax (born 1960) is a Luxembourgish writer living in Berlin whose German-language novel U5 won the Servais Prize for Luxembourg literature in 2009.
Born on 29 January 1960 at Schifflange in south-eastern Luxembourg, Sax attended primary school in Mondercange, the École professionelle in Esch-sur-Alzette, the Ecole des arts et métiers in Luxembourg City, and the Lycée des garçons in Esch-sur-Alzette.
Since 2001, he has been living in Berlin, where he works as a freelance writer, contributing reviews of German literature on authors such as Bernhard Schlink and Sven Regener.
[1] In 2008, Pax made his literary debut with the novel U5, named after the U-Bahn in Berlin, which is the backdrop for a story of complex relationships between three marginalized figures.
Artistic creation, living on the fringes of middle-class society, and the emotions such as love, loneliness, and human relationships are central features of the novel which also deals with death and guilt.