Louise Penny

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Louise Penny CM (born July 1, 1958 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian journalist and award-winning crime writer .

Life

Louise Penny graduated from Ryerson University in Toronto in 1979 with a Bachelor of Applied Arts (Radio and Television). Immediately thereafter, she worked for 18 years as a broadcast journalist and presenter at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Toronto, Thunder Bay , Winnipeg , Québec and most recently in Montreal before leaving the CBC to pursue her literary inclination.

When Louise Penny was in her mid-30s, she met her future husband Michael Whitehead, who was then head of hematology at the Montreal Children's Hospital . Michael Whitehead passed away in September 2016.

Her detective novels, comparable to the novels by PD James and Elizabeth George , are set in the idyllic community of Three Pines near Québec . The residents of Three Pines are amiable and humane, good - but also endowed with all weaknesses at the same time. Penny's protagonist is Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Sûreté du Québec .

For her first novel Still Life , there was no publisher in the Canadian-American region. The London-based Headline Publishing Group took over the publication in 2005 and successfully submitted the novel to the British Crime Writers' Association (CWA) as a debut work: Penny's Still Life was awarded the New Blood Dagger in 2006 by the CWA as the best debut novel . The novel received four further literary prizes in 2006 and 2007 from the USA and Canada.

Works

Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series
  • 2005 Still Life
    • Because everyone is to blame , German by Andrea Stumpf and Gabriele Werbeck; Limes, Munich 2006. ISBN 978-3-8090-2515-3
    • also as: The village in the red forests , same translation; Kampa, Zurich 2019. ISBN 978-3-311-12006-3
  • 2006 Dead Cold (also known as A Fatal Grace in the US )
    • And fear gives birth to anger , by Andrea Stumpf and Gabriele Werbeck; Limes, Munich 2008. ISBN 978-3-8090-2517-7
    • also as: deeply snowed in , German by Andrea Stumpf and Gabriele Werbeck; Kampa, Zurich 2019. ISBN 978-3-311-12008-7
  • 2007 The Cruelest Month
  • 2008 The Murder Stone (also known as A Rule Against Murder in the US )
  • 2009 The Brutal Telling
  • 2010 Bury Your Dead
  • 2011 A Trick of the Light
  • 2012 The Beautiful Mystery
  • 2013 How the Light Gets In
  • 2014 The Long Way Home
  • 2015 The Nature of the Beast
  • 2016 A Great Reckoning
  • 2017 Glass Houses
    • Behind the three pines , German by Andrea Stumpf and Gabriele Werbeck; Kampa, Zurich 2018. ISBN 978-3-311-12002-5
  • 2018 Kingdom of the Blind

Awards

Web links

Remarks

  1. ↑ according to CBC information
  2. ↑ Official website ( Memento of the original from October 22, 2006 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link has been inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.thechildren.com
  3. ↑ Dr. Michael Whitehead, husband of author Louise Penny, dead at 82 , article from September 19, 2016 on cbc.ca, accessed February 18, 2019.
  4. ^ Title of the original edition: Dead Cold
personal data
SURNAME Penny, Louise
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian crime writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 1, 1958
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada