Charlotte Jay
Charlotte Jay (born December 17, 1919 in Melville / Adelaide - South Australia , † October 27, 1996 in Adelaide), born Geraldine Mary Jay , was the pseudonym of the Australian crime novelist Geraldine Halls . Notoriety she gained through her nine detective novels , of which 1,954 Beat Not the Bones (dt. To the bone) the first Edgar Award in the newly built "Best Novel" (Best Novel) American author association Mystery Writers of America awarded .
Charlotte Jay published the crime novels under her pseudonym; other novels appeared under her maiden name or as Geraldine Halls . Only the award-winning crime novel Beat Not the Bones can be found in German translation .
Life
Jay grew up in the South Australian coastal city of Adelaide and attended the Girton School , later she studied at the University of Adelaide . She worked as a stenographer in Australia and England , and from 1942 to 1950 also as a court stenographer in New Guinea . In addition, she was active as a writer and dealt with Asian art. Jay married the Orient expert Albert Halls , who also traded in oriental antiques and through whose work for UNESCO she was able to get to know exotic regions; these were later found in Jay's novels. In fact, only the novel The Knife is Feminine is set in Australia; the plots of the other novels extend to Pakistan , Japan , Thailand , Lebanon , India , Papua New Guinea and the Trobriand Islands .
Jay died in her hometown of Adelaide at the age of 77.
Awards
- 1954 Edgar Allan Poe Award (Best Novel category ) for Beat Not the Bones (Ger. Except for the Bones . Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. A. 1986)
Works
As Charlotte Jay
- 1951 The Knife Is Feminine
- 1952 Beat Not the Bones
- German down to the bones . Ullstein, Frankfurt / M. + Berlin 1986 ISBN 3-548-10428-2 , later under
- The poison of the new world . Argument, Hamburg 1999 ISBN 3-88619-838-3
- 1953 The Fugitive Eye
- 1955 The Yellow Turban
- 1958 The Man Who Walked Away (US title: The Stepfather )
- 1960 Arms for Adonis
- 1964 A Hank of Hair
As Geraldine Mary Jay
- 1956 The Feast of the Dead (US title: The Brink of Silence )
As Geraldine Halls
- 1967 The Cats of Benares
- 1971 Cobra Kite
- 1974 The Voice of the Crab
- 1977 The Last Summer of the Men Shortage
- 1979 The Felling of Thawle
- 1982 Talking to strangers
- 1995 This is My Friend's Chair
Movie
The crime novel The Fugitive Eye , published in 1951, was the template for an American TV series in 1961 (with Charlton Heston, among others ).
literature
- Adelaide, Debra: Australian women writers: a bibliographic guide , London, Pandora 1988 (English)
Web links
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Moss Peter, Michael J Tolley: A Hank of Hair: Afterword, pp. 114–120, South Australia: Wakefield Press 1992, ISBN 1-86254-289-9 (English)
- ^ Alcoa Premier: The Fugitive Eye (1961) . IMDb. Retrieved February 10, 2010.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Jay, Charlotte |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Hall's Geraldine; Jay, Geraldine Mary |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Australian writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 17, 1919 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Melville / Adelaide, South Australia |
| DATE OF DEATH | October 27, 1996 |
| Place of death | Adelaide , South Australia |