Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes will present her novel My Heart in Two Worlds at the Leipzig Book Fair 2018 .

Pauline Sara Jo "Jojo" Moyes (born August 4, 1969 in London ) is a British journalist , writer and screenwriter .

Life

Since her parents were big fans of the Beatles , Jojo Moyes got her first name after the man sung about in the song Get Back , released four months before her birth . She grew up as an only child and divorced child in “a very rough area of ​​London”. After graduating from high school, Moyes worked in several professions before studying sociology at Bedford College and Royal Holloway , both colleges of the University of London . With a scholarship funded by The Independent , she studied journalism at City University London . In 1994 she wrote from Hong Kong for the Sunday Morning Post . She worked for the Independent in various functions for around ten years.

With the novel Sheltering Rain , which appeared in the same year under the German title Die Frauen von Kilcarrion by Rowohlt Verlag , Moyes made her debut as a writer in 2002. From then on she concentrated on writing, in addition to publishing columns, for example for The Daily Telegraph . With her second novel Foreign Fruit (German: Das Haus der Wiederkehr ), she won the Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the British Romantic Novelists' Association. In 2011 she received the award for the second time for the novel The Last Letter From Your Lover (German: A handful of words ).

Moyes had her greatest success with her novel A Whole Half Year , published in 2012 . The love story with a young woman as the protagonist who becomes the nurse of a rich quadriplegic was a worldwide success and has been translated into over 34 languages. In Germany, the book was published by Rowohlt Verlag in March 2013 with an initial print run of 120,000 and became the most successful novel in 2013, with over 1.2 million copies sold. Together with Eine Handvoll Wort ( A Handful of Words) , it sold over two million copies in 2013 in Germany alone. The Hollywood film studio MGM acquired the film rights to A Whole Half Year in January 2013 . The film of the same name was released in June 2016 with a script written by Moyes. Moyes refuses to categorize her works as chick-lit .

Moyes has lived on a small homestead in Saffron Walden , Essex , with her husband and their three children since 2000 .

Awards

• 2013 LovelyBooks Readers Award in the Novel category for a full six months
• 2014 LovelyBooks Readers Award in the Novel category for Far Away and Very Close
• 2015 LovelyBooks reader award in the novel category for a whole new life and for A picture of you in the romance category
• 2016 LovelyBooks readers' award in the novel category for the sky above us, the sea below
• 2017 LovelyBooks Readers Award in the Novel category for Im Schatten das Licht
• 2019 LovelyBooks Readers Award in the Novel category for Like a Shine in the Dead of Night

bibliography

• Sheltering Rain (2002)
  • The women of Kilcarrion , Rowohlt Verlag 2002, ISBN 3-8052-0728-X .
• Foreign Fruit (2003)
  • Das Haus der Wiederkehr , Wunderlich 2003, ISBN 3-8052-0763-8 .
• The Peacock Emporium (2004)
  • Suzanna's Coffee Shop , Wunderlich 2005, ISBN 3-8052-0782-4 .
• The Ship of Brides (2005)
  • The sky above us, the sea below , Rowohlt Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-26733-8 .
• Silver Bay (2007)
  • So close to heaven . Translation by Judith Schwaab . Page & Turner 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-20321-5 .
  • Newly published Nights when Storms Rise , Rowohlt Verlag 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-27639-2 .
• Night Music (2008)
  • The sound of the heart , Goldmann Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-47070-9 .
• The Horse Dancer (2009)
  • In the shadow the light , Rowohlt Verlag 2017, ISBN 978-3-499-26735-2 .
• The Last Letter From Your Lover (2010)
  • A handful of words , Weltbild Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-86365-161-9 .
• Me Before You (2012)
  • Half a year , Rowohlt Verlag 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-26703-1 .
• Honeymoon In Paris (2012)
  • The days in Paris , Rowohlt Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-26790-1 .
• The Girl You Left Behind (2012)
  • A picture of you , Rowohlt Verlag 2015, ISBN 978-3-499-26972-1 .
• The One Plus One (2014)
  • Far away and very close , Rowohlt Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-499-26736-9 .
• After You (2015)
  • A whole new life , Wunderlich 2015, ISBN 978-3-8052-5094-8 . ( No. 1 on the Spiegel bestseller list in 2015 and 2016 )
• At night on the Seine , Rowohlt Verlag 2016, ISBN 978-3-499-29070-1 .
• Small escapes. Stories of hope and wishing , Wunderlich 2017, ISBN 978-3-8052-0017-2 .
• Still me (2018)
  • My heart in two worlds , Wunderlich 2018, ISBN 978-3-8052-5106-8 . ( 1st place on the Spiegel bestseller list from February 3 to 16 and from February 24 to March 16, 2018 )
• The Giver of Stars (2019)
  • Like a glow in the dead of night , Wunderlich 2019, ISBN 978-3-8052-0029-5 .

Filmography

• 2016: Half a year (Me Before You)

Audio book

• Half a year ( platinum ), Germany: Audiobook Award
• A whole new life ( gold ), Germany: Audiobook Award
• A handful of words (gold), Germany: Audiobook Award
• Far away and very close (gold), Germany: Audiobook Award

Web links

• Literature by and about Jojo Moyes in the catalog of the German National Library
• Jojo Moyes in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Official website

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1. ↑ Jojo Moyes , jeffpearlman.com, July 2, 2014, accessed November 22, 2017
2. ↑ ^{a b} Martin Wittmann: Jojo Moyes on women , in: Süddeutsche Zeitung , May 24, 2014, p. 10V2
3. ^ Annual bestseller , buchreport.de
4. ↑ Jojo Moyes' Me Before You is Germany's best-selling book of 2013 , curtisbrown.co.uk
5. ↑ MGM Nabs Big-Screen Rights to Jojo Moyes' Best-Seller 'Me Before You' , hollywoodreporter.com
6. ↑ Gold / platinum database of the Federal Music Industry Association , July 10, 2017