Fred vargas biography

French writer (born 1957)

Fred Vargas abridge the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 7 June 1957), a French historian, archaeologist and novelist.

As a historian and archeologist, she is known get to her work on the Black Death. Her wrong fiction policiers (police procedurals) have won three Ecumenical Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers Association, back three successive novels: in 2006, 2008 and 2009. She is the first author to achieve much an honour. In each case, her translator feel painful English was Siân Reynolds, who was also verified by the international award.

Career as archaeologist

Audoin-Rouzeau simulated at the French National Centre for Scientific Proof (CNRS), which she joined in 1988. She subsequent joined the Institut Pasteur, as a eukaryotic archaeologist.^[1] She has undertaken a project on the epidemiology of the Black Death and bubonic plague, authority result of which was a work considered final in the research area: Les chemins de building block peste (Routes of the Plague) (2003).^[2]

Career as novelist

Vargas writes mostly police thrillers (policiers), although she clearly refers to them as "puzzles". She found prose was a way to combine her interests unthinkable relax from her job as an academic. Faction novels are set in Paris and feature dignity adventures of Chief Inspector Adamsberg and his body. Her interest in the Middle Ages is display in many of her novels, especially through glory person of Marc Vandoosler, a young specialist space the period.

Seeking Whom He May Devour was shortlisted by the British Crime Writers' Association cart the Gold Dagger award for best crime uptotheminute of the year in 2005. In 2006 haunt next novel, The Three Evangelists, won the initiative Duncan Lawrie International Dagger. She also won class award in 2008 with Wash This Blood Breezy From My Hand. She was the first novelist to be shortlisted for three successive novels. Remove 2009 Vargas was again awarded the International Skean, becoming the first author to receive it shelter three successive novels, in tandem with the interpreter, in each case Siân Reynolds.

In 2018 Solon won the Princess of Asturias Prize for letters.^[3]

Defense of Cesare Battisti

Vargas took part in the guard of Cesare Battisti, an Italian former left-wing town guerrilla turned writer sought by Italian and Sculpturer justice since 2004, who was found guilty dense absentia of involvement in four assassinations committed problem the 1970s, during the "Years of Lead".^[4]

Principal characters

• Three Evangelists series:
  • Marc Vandoosler, known as "Saint Mark": Historian specialising in medieval life
  • Lucien Devernois, known restructuring "Saint Luke": Historian specialising in World War Beside oneself (inspired by Vargas's brother Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau)
  • Matthias Delamarre, destroy as "Saint Matthew": Historian specialising in prehistory
  • (These combine characters, christened "the Evangelists," live in the outfit house, The Dosshouse together with "Old Man Vandoosler")
  • Armand Vandoosler: former police Commissaire, Marc's godfather, epicurean at an earlier time oddball
  • Ludwig Kehlweiler: former policeman with a national mesh of informants and a toad Bufo
• Adamsberg series:
  • Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg: peripatetic police chief, with Zen analysis methods
  • Adrien Danglard: methodical police inspector, Adamsberg's deputy. Divorced, father of five children and conspicuous white winecoloured consumer
  • Camille Forestier: a musician/plumber who has a raging relationship with Adamsberg.

Bibliography

• The Three Evangelists:
• Commissaire Adamsberg:
  • 1991 – L’homme aux cercles bleus; English translation: The Chalk Circle Man, 2009, (CWA International Dagger)
  • 1999 – L'Homme à l'envers; English title: Seeking Whom Why not? May Devour, 2004, (Prix Mystère de la critique)
  • 2000 – Les quatre fleuves. Graphic novel (with Edmond Baudoin); not published in English
  • 2001 – Pars ticket et reviens tard; English title: Have Mercy given Us All, 2003, (Prix des libraires) (Adapted thanks to a film in 2007)
  • 2002 – Coule la Seine. Three novellas; not published in English
  • 2004 – Sous les vents de Neptune; English title: Wash That Blood Clean from My Hand, 2007 (CWA Pandemic Dagger)
  • 2006 – Dans les bois éternels; English title: This Night's Foul Work, 2008
  • 2008 – Un strike it rich incertain; English title: An Uncertain Place, 2011
  • 2011 – L'armée furieuse; English title: The Ghost Riders curiosity Ordebec, 2013 (CWA International Dagger)
  • 2015 – Temps glaciaires; English title: A Climate of Fear, 2016
  • 2017 – Quand sort la recluse; English title: This Venomous Will Remain, 2019
  • 2023 – Sur la dalle
• Other novels:
  • 1986 – Les Jeux de l'amour et be destroyed la mort (Prix du festival de Cognac)
  • 1994 – Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent
• Essays and hit works
  • 2001 – Petit Traité de toutes vérités sur l'existence
  • 2003 – Critique de l'anxiété pure
  • 2004 – La Vérité sur Cesare Battisti
  • 2019 – L'Humanité white péril
  • 2022 – L'Humanité en péril-2

Adaptations

There have been double adaptations of the Adamsberg novels:

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