Jacqueline Montemurri

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Jacqueline Montemurri (born on August 18, 1969 in Lichtenstein , Saxony ) is a German writer. She is known as a writer of science fiction and fantasy .

Life

For the first few years , Montemurri grew up in Gersdorf near Hohenstein-Ernstthal , the birth town of Karl May , and came to Dorsten in North Rhine-Westphalia from the GDR in 1982 . In 1989 she graduated from the comprehensive school in Wulfen and then studied aerospace engineering at the FH Aachen , where she graduated in 1995 as a graduate engineer . She then worked for a few years for an educational institution in administration and as a lecturer for project management and has since been assistant to the management of the Velbert refugee aid association .

In 2012 her first science fiction novel was published, Die Maggan-Copy , which was nominated for the German Science Fiction Prize the following year . The short story volume Fremde Welt , published in 2013, was nominated for the German Fantasy Prize in the category of best anthology and the cover story in the category of best short story. In 2019 Montemurri's novel The Ruler of the Deep was published in the series Karl May's Magischer Orient . The episode The Queen of Sheba had already appeared in Volume 5 of the series ( Slave and Queen ) . In addition to the book publications, Montemurri also writes short stories, which have appeared in Spektrum der Wissenschaft and the science fiction magazine Exodus , among others .

Montemurri has lived in Neviges / Velbert with her husband and two sons since 2002 .

Awards / nominations

  • 2013 nomination for the German Science Fiction Prize 2013 in the category "Best German-language novel" for Die Maggan-Copy
  • 2013 3rd place in the short story competition of the association for the promotion of space travel for the fascination of loneliness published in SPACE 2014
  • 2014 nomination for the German Phantastik Preis 2014 in the category “Best German-language short story” for a journey into the cosmos from a foreign world
  • 2014 nomination for the German Fantastic Prize 2014 in the category “Best original anthology” for a foreign world
  • 2015 2nd place in the short story competition of the association for the promotion of space travel for scrap collectors published in SPACE 2016
  • 2016 Nomination for the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2016 in the category “Best German-language short story” for solar moon eclipses from Die Magnetische Stadt
  • 2018 3rd place at the Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2018 in the category “Best German-language short story” for incident from mutiny on Titan
  • 2020 nomination for the German Science Fiction Prize 2020 in the category “Best German-language short story” for Koloss aus dem Orbit
  • 2020 Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis 2020 in the category “Best German-language short story” for Colossus from Orbit from EXODUS magazine 39

bibliography

Novels
  • The Maggan Copy: Future Thriller. Edition Paashaas, Hattingen 2012, ISBN 978-3-942614-18-4 .
  • Slave and queen. With Alexander Röder u. a. Karl Mays Magischer Orient Vol. 5. Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 2018, ISBN 978-3-7802-2505-4 .
  • The ruler of the deep. Karl Mays Magischer Orient Vol. 7. Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 2019, ISBN 978-3-7802-2507-8 .
  • The secret of Lamassu. Karl Mays Magischer Orient Vol. 9. Karl-May-Verlag, Bamberg 2020, ISBN 978-3-7802-2509-2 .
collection
Children's book
  • Friedewald, the noble knight. Illustrated by Volker Kosznitzki. Edition Paashaas, Hattingen 2018, ISBN 978-3-96174-032-1 .
Non-fiction
  • with Manuela Klumpjan: Was das Dass so everything can: Exercise texts for this and that. Edition Paashaas, Hattingen 2016, ISBN 978-3-945725-54-2 .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ https://www.dsfp.de/688/die-preistrager-des-dsfp-2013
  2. ↑ https://vfr.de/wettbewerb/wettbewerb-2013/
  3. ↑ https://phantastikpreis.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/die-gewinner-2014/
  4. ↑ https://phantastikpreis.wordpress.com/2014/10/12/die-gewinner-2014/
  5. ↑ https://vfr.de/wettbewerb/wettbewerb-2015/
  6. ↑ http://www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/2016/KLP_2016_Beste_Erzaehler.htm
  7. ↑ http://www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/2018/KLP_2018_Beste_Erzaehler.htm
  8. ↑ https://www.dsfp.de/1220/dsfp-2020-die-preistraeger
  9. ↑ http://www.kurd-lasswitz-preis.de/2020/KLP_2020_Erzaehler.htm
personal data
SURNAME Montemurri, Jacqueline
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Montemurri-Jarnicki, Jacqueline
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German writer
DATE OF BIRTH 18th August 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH Lichtenstein / Sa.