Jasper Fforde
Jasper Fforde (born January 11, 1961 in London ) is a British writer and cameraman .
Life
Fforde is a full-time camera assistant (including for the James Bond film GoldenEye and the movie The Saint - The Man Without a Name ).
In 2001 he published his first novel The Eyre Affair (German: The Case of Jane Eyre ) about the protagonist Thursday Next, which rose to the English bestseller lists. The Thursday Next series was continued with six more volumes until 2012. The novels are set in a fictional parallel world in which reality and fantasy mix.
In 2005 Fforde began a new series of novels about the Nursery Crime Division. The first volume, The Big Over Easy, is based on Forde's first previously unpublished manuscript, which was rejected by 76 publishers. The protagonist of the series is Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, a supporting character from the Thursday Next novel In the Well of Manuscripts . The action takes place in a fictional version of the English town of Reading , in which characters from spoken rhymes and fairy tales also live. In the summer of 2006, The Fourth Bear , the second novel in the Nursery Crimes series, was published.
In 2009, Fforde created Shades of Gray 1: The Road to High Saffron, a new, three-volume world of novels in which democracy in the distant future has been replaced by a “Colourtocracy”. In a world of more or less color blind people, the ability to recognize colors determines social status.
In 2010 he wrote his first children's book entitled The Last Dragonslayer , which is also set in an England that has medieval elements. The second volume, The Song of the Quarkbeast , was released in 2011.
The books belong to the genre of alternative world stories and contain elements of crime fiction , fantasy and comedy . They are characterized by their intertextuality , word games and a non-linear course of action.
Fforde offers version updates of its books on its website and a forum in which fans can publish self-written stories or parodies of the Thursday Next series .
Jasper Fforde is related by marriage to the British writer Katie Fforde : his cousin Desmond Fforde is her husband.
Works
Thursday Next series
- The Eyre Affair. 2001. (German: Der Fall Jane Eyre . Dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24379-1 )
- Lost in a Good Book. 2002. (German: In another book . Dtv, Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24430-5 )
- The Well of Lost Plots. 2003. (German: Im Brunnen der Manuskripte . Dtv, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-24464-X )
- Something Rotten. 2004. (German: Es ist was lazy . Dtv, Munich 2006, ISBN 3-423-24568-9 )
- First Among Sequels. 2007. (German: Somewhere completely different . Dtv, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-423-24758-0 )
- One of Our Thursdays is Missing. 2011. (German: Where is Thursday Next? Dtv, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-423-24915-7 )
- The Woman Who Died a Lot. Hodder & Stoughton, 2012, ISBN 978-0-340-96311-1 .
Nursery Crimes series
- The Big Over Easy. 2005.
- The Fourth Bear. 2006.
Eddie Russett series
- Shades of Gray - The Road to High Saffron. 2009. (German: Grau. Eichborn Verlag, Frankfurt am Main. 2011, ISBN 978-3-8218-6140-1 )
Dragonslayer series
- The Last Dragonslayer. Hodder & Stoughton, 2010, ISBN 978-1-4447-0717-5 . (German: The Last Dragon Slayer Bastei Lübbe Verlag, 2015, ISBN 978-3-8466-0005-4 )
- The Song of the Quarkbeast. Hodder & Stoughton, 2011, ISBN 978-1-4447-0725-0 . (German: Das Lied des Quarktiers Bastei Lübbe Verlag, 2016, ISBN 978-3-8466-0023-8 )
- The Eye of Zoltar. Harcourt Brace and Company, 2014, ISBN 978-0-547-73849-9 . (German: Das Auge des Zoltars Bastei Lübbe Verlag, 2017, ISBN 978-3-8466-0045-0 )
Others
- Early Riser Hodder & Stoughton, 2018, ISBN 978-1-4447-6359-1 . (German: Eiswelt Heyne, 2018, ISBN 978-3-4533-1969-1 )
- The Constant Rabbit Hodder & Stoughton, 2020, ISBN 978-1444763621 .
Awards
- 2002: William L. Crawford Fantasy Award for The Eyre Affair , The Jane Eyre Case
- 2004: Dilys Award for Lost in a Good Book (German: In another book ).
- 2019: Kurd-Laßwitz-Preis for Eiswelt as best foreign novel
Individual evidence
Web links
- Literature by and about Jasper Fforde in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jasper Fforde in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Jasper Fforde in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Works by and about Jasper Fforde at Open Library
- Jasper Fforde in the Science Fiction Awards + Database (English)
- Official homepage of Jasper Fforde (English)
- Official German homepage of Jasper Fforde at dtv-Verlag
- The lord of the surreal. on: Deutschlandradio Kultur . December 15, 2011
- Review: The last dragon slayer on KinderundJugendmedien.de
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Fforde, Jasper |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer and cameraman |
DATE OF BIRTH | January 11, 1961 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | London |