Anne Sanders

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Anne Sanders (* 1969 in Wuppertal as Alexandra Pilz) is an Austrian writer living in Germany. Several of her novels achieved bestseller status.

Life

Anne Sanders' novels are mainly set in England or Scotland. Her debut was published in 2016 by the Munich-based Blanvalet Verlag and immediately reached the top 20 of the Spiegel bestseller list in the paperback fiction category: "Summer in St. Ives " is set in the former fishing village of the same name in southern England, which in Germany is mainly due to the Rosamunde- Pilcher films for the ZDF became known. Sanders describes herself as a lover of the British Isles. The Cornwall novel "Summer House for Happiness" also reached the Spiegel bestseller list in 2018. In 2019, two parts of a small series came onto the German market under the title "Wild at Heart - Welcome to the Hotel of Hearts". The setting for the family comedy is the fictional tidal island of Port Magdalen, which is modeled on the English St. Michael's Mount .

Before her career as a writer, the author, who grew up in Wuppertal and Munich, worked as a journalist under her real name Alexandra Pilz. She was trained as an editor as a trainee for the Süddeutsche Zeitung , for which she wrote for many years. Her first novel was published under her maiden name in 2013: "Back to Hollyhill" ( Heyne flies publishing house) is a fantasy book for young people and is about a village in Dartmoor , England , that can travel through time. Pilz was a guest at the Leipzig Book Fair with her book , previously several large German publishers had tried to get the manuscript. A trilogy emerged from the Hollyhill material by 2016. The Colorful presented Alexandra mushroom in March 2013 under the headline before: "Four young talents that you should remember."

The author remained true to the genre of young people's books. Alongside Anne Sanders, Lea Coplin became her second open pseudonym. In the publishing dtv came in 2018, the youth drama "Nothing is good. Without you. " It is her first novel to be set in her adopted home Munich. The successor “Nothing to lose. Besides us. ”, A kind of spin-off story with characters from the first dtv book, is set in Scotland.

Anne Sanders is married and lives with her husband in Munich.

Works

Novels as Anne Sanders

  • Summer in St. Ives. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2016
  • My heart is an island. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2017
  • Summer house fortunately. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2018
  • Wild at Heart - Welcome to the hotel of hearts . Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2019 (Paperback title: Welcome to the Hotel of Hearts. A Cornwall novel. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2019)
  • Wild at Heart - winter happiness in the hotel of hearts. Blanvalet Verlag, Munich 2019

Novels as Lea Coplin

  • Nothing is good. Without you. dtv Verlag, Munich, 2018
  • Nothing to lose. Except us. dtv Verlag, Munich, 2018

Novels as Alexandra Pilz

  • Back to Hollyhill. Heyne flies publishing house, Munich 2013
  • In love with Hollyhill. Heyne flies publishing house, Munich 2014
  • Forever Hollyhill. Heyne flies publishing house, Munich 2016

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Anne Sanders | Delia. Accessed November 24, 2019 (German).
  2. ↑ book report. Accessed November 24, 2019 (German).
  3. ↑ About | Anne Sanders. Accessed November 24, 2019 (German).
  4. ↑ Interview | Anne Sanders in an interview on her novel "Wild at Heart". Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  5. ↑ book report. Accessed November 24, 2019 (German).
  6. ↑ Interview | Anne Sanders in an interview on her novel "Wild at Heart". Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  7. ↑ Interview | Anne Sanders in an interview on her novel "Wild at Heart". Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
  8. ↑ Article “Writer”, published in the Süddeutsche Zeitung, local section Munich, February 22, 2013
  9. ↑ Article “Four young talents that you should remember”, published in Bunte, March 14, 2013
  10. ↑ Why do I also write books for young people? | Anne Sanders. Accessed November 24, 2019 (German).
  11. ↑ About | Anne Sanders. Accessed November 24, 2019 (German).
  12. ↑ Interview | Anne Sanders in an interview on her novel "Wild at Heart". Retrieved November 24, 2019 .
personal data
SURNAME Sanders, Anne
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Pilz, Alexandra (maiden name); Coplin, Lea (pseudonym)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian writer in Germany
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Wuppertal