Jenny-Mai Nuyen
Jenny-Mai Nuyen , actually Jenny-Mai Nguyen (born March 14, 1988 in Munich ) is a German fantasy writer . To make it easier to pronounce, she publishes her books - on the advice of her publisher - under the name Nuyen .
Life
Jenny-Mai Nguyen is the daughter of a Vietnamese computer scientist and a German mother and grew up in Munich. She wrote her first stories when she was five and tried her first script when she was ten. She wrote her first novel at the age of thirteen . She made her literary debut in 2007 with the fantasy novel Nijura - The Legacy of the Elven Crown , a bestseller that was followed in rapid succession by others. Two of her novels have licensed translations into Japanese, Spanish, Italian, Danish, Czech, Turkish or Greek. After dropping out of film studies at New York University , she moved to Berlin in 2009 , but occasionally also lives in Munich.
Works
The storm chasers of Aradon
- Feenlicht cbj, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-570-16033-6 .
- Magierlicht cbj, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-570-16062-6
Single novels
- Nijura - The legacy of the elven crown. cbj, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-13058-2 .
- The dragon gate. cbj, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-30388-7 .
- Nocturna - The night of the stolen shadows. cbj, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-570-13337-8 .
- Rabenmond - The magical bond. cbj, Munich 2008, ISBN 978-3-570-16000-8 .
- Noir. Rowohlt Polaris, Hamburg 2012, ISBN 978-3-862-52028-2 .
- Night without a name , dtv, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3423761093 .
- Heartware. Rowohlt Polaris, Hamburg 2017, ISBN 978-3499267079 .
- Ilian's daughters. Fischer TOR, Berlin 2019, ISBN 978-3596299973 .
Web links
- Literature by and about Jenny-Mai Nuyen in the catalog of the German National Library
- Jenny-May nuyen in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Jenny-Mai Nuyen at Open Library
- Jenny-Mai Nuyen's weblog
- Interview with Jenny-Mai Nuyen
- Author portrait of Jenny-Mai Nuyen at alliteratus.com (PDF file; 1.23 MB)
- Jenny-Mai Nuyen at Random House
- Portrait of Jenny-Mai Nuyen at booksection.de
supporting documents
- ^ With dragons and fairies to New York on Spiegel Online from October 19, 2009
- ↑ See GND inventory
- ↑ See blurb in Noir
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nuyen, Jenny-Mai |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Nguyen, Jenny-Mai (real name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 14, 1988 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Munich |