Belinda Bauer (writer)
Belinda Bauer (* 1962 in Great Britain ) is a British writer , screenwriter and journalist .
life and work
Belinda Bauer grew up in England and South Africa , studied journalism at Cardiff University after completing school and then worked as a journalist in Cardiff . After receiving the prestigious BAFTA Carl Foreman Award for Young British Screenwriters for her screenplay The Locker Room , she received a scholarship to study film and screenwriting at California State University . She returned to Wales after graduation and initially worked as a secretary, journalist and screenwriter before devoting herself entirely to her writing career. For her first thriller Blacklands , which was published in 2010 and published in the same year under the German title Das Grab im Moor by Goldmann Verlag , she was awarded the CWA Gold Dagger for the best English-language suspense novel. Since then, Belinda Bauer has published other successful thrillers and psychological thrillers.
The author lives and works in Wales.
Works
- 2010 Blacklands
- Das Grab im Moor (German translation by Marie-Luise Bezzenberger), Goldmann , Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-47176-8 .
- 2010 Darkside
- The Protector (German translation by Marie-Luise Bezzenberger), Manhattan , Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-54701-2 .
- 2012 Finders Keepers
- You don't love her (German translation by Marie-Luise Bezzenberger), Manhattan, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-54713-5 .
- 2013 Rubbernecker
- What is dead (German translation by Marie-Luise Bezzenberger), Manhattan, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-54750-0 .
- 2014 The Facts of Life and Death
- Mädchenbeute (German translation by Marie-Luise Bezzenberger), Manhattan, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-54758-6 .
- 2015 The Shut Eye
- Totenkind (German translation by Marie-Luise Bezzenberger), Goldmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-48479-9 .
- 2016 The Beautiful Dead
- Death so near (German translation by Marie-Luise Bezzenberger), Goldmann, Munich 2018, ISBN 978-3-442-48835-3 .
- 2018 snap
Web links
- Literature by and about Belinda Bauer in the catalog of the German National Library
- Author portrait at Penguin Books
- Author portrait at Random House
- Page of the author at Krimi-Couch.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Farmer, Belinda |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Great Britain |