Rachel Joyce (writer)

Rachel Joyce (* 1962 in London ) is a British actress and writer. In 2012 she had with "The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" ( The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry worldwide) Bestseller . This was continued in the novel "The Secret of Queenie Hennessie"

Life and professional development

Rachel Joyce is one of three daughters of Myra and Martin Joyce. She studied English at Bristol University and attended the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London and initially worked as an actress. In 1999 she gave up acting to better take care of her family. She started working as a radio play writer for the BBC .

Rachel Joyce is married to actor Paul Venables and has four children.

Awards

As an actress for the Royal Shakespeare Company , she won the “Time Out Actress of the Year Award” for the lead role in Henrik Ibsen's Nora or A Puppet's House .

In 2007 she received the Tinniswood Award for her radio play To Be a Pilgrim . She processed one of her radio plays into her first novel "The improbable pilgrimage of Harold Fry", in which she deals with her father's death from cancer without, however, telling his story. In 2012 the novel was nominated for the Booker Prize and won the "New Writer of the Year Award".

Works

Books

• The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry. 2012.
  German: The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry. 2012, ISBN 978-3-8105-1079-2 (5th edition)
• Perfect. 2013.
  German: The year that took two seconds. 2013, translated by Maria Andreas. ISBN 978-3-8105-1081-5
• The Love Song of Miss Queenie Hennessy. 2014.
  German: The secret of Queenie Hennessy: The love letter never sent to Harold Fry. 2016, translated by Maria Andreas. ISBN 978-3-596-52122-7
• The Music Shop . Doubleday, 2017.
  German: Mister Frank's fabulous talent for harmony 2017, translated by Maria Andreas. ISBN 978-3-8105-1082-2

Audio books

• The year that took two seconds. 2013, read by Wanja Mues , ISBN 978-3-8398-5187-6
• The unlikely pilgrimage of Harold Fry. 2012, read by Heikko Deutschmann . ISBN 978-3-8398-5134-0
• Queenie Hennessy's Secret: The Love Letter to Harold Fry that was never sent. 2014, read by Andrea Sawatzky , ISBN 978-3-8398-9280-0
• A distant scent like lemon: a Christmas tale. 2015, read by Andrea Sawatzky, ISBN 978-3-8398-1416-1
• Mister Frank's fabulous talent for harmony. 2018, read by Christian Baumann, ISBN 978-3-8398-1574-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Rachel Joyce in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website by Rachel Joyce (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rachel Joyce on dailymail.co.uk
2. ↑ The Secret of Queenie Hennessy The never mailed letter to Harold Fry . 1st edition FISCHER Taschenbuch, Frankfurt am Main 2015, ISBN 978-3-596-03069-9 , pp. 5 or 399 .
3. ↑ ^{a b c d} Emily Hill: My Darling, stoical Dad - the real hero of the novel that could win me the Booker. Mail Online, July 28, 2012 (English)
4. ^ Radio Drama Awards - The Tinniswood Award. The Society of Authors
5. ↑ New Writer of the Year went to Rachel Joyce for The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (English)