Torsten Fink

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Torsten Fink (born September 1965 in Bad Kreuznach , Germany ) is a German author of fantasy novels.

Life

Torsten Fink spent a few years of his childhood on the North Sea in Wilhelmshaven . Then he moved to the Nahe land with his parents . At the age of 12 he was enthusiastic about reading Gustav Schwab's adaptation of the " Iliad " for fantasy about myths and heroes and began to design fantasy novels. Torsten Fink worked for a long time as a freelance journalist, copywriter and literary cabaret artist. He performed together with a percussionist and recited poems and texts in which legends and myths were relocated to the present. He wrote his first fantasy novels in 2009. It was the bestselling trilogy "The Magician's Daughter" . In an interview in 2012 he named Terry Pratchett , JRR Tolkien , Sergej Lukjanenko , Donald E. Strout , William Faulkner , Bertolt Brecht and Doris Lessing as well as films by Akira Kurosawa , Aki Kaurismäki and Francis Ford Coppola as influential authors .

Torsten Fink has lived in Mainz since the 1990s .

Works

Standalone novels

• The island of demons. 2009, ISBN 978-3-641-01364-6 .
• Dragon storm. October 2011, ISBN 978-3-442-26806-1 .
• Empire of Light. November 2015, ISBN 978-3-734-16046-2 .
• The rune master. February 2019, ISBN 978-3-522-20256-5

The Magician's Daughter Trilogy

• The thief. April 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-26631-9 .
• The companion. June 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-26632-6 .
• The chosen one. August 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-26633-3 .

The Seer Son Trilogy

• Nomad. May 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-26691-3 .
• Light bearer. July 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-26692-0 .
• Renegade. September 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-26693-7 .

Shadow Prince series

• The Prince of Shadows. April 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-26856-6 .
• The prince of blades. December 2012, ISBN 978-3-442-26857-3 .
• The prince of the scorpions. June 2013, ISBN 978-3-442-26858-0 .

Individual novels in the world of the Shadow Prince

• The prince of vengeance. January 2014, ISBN 978-3-442-26940-2 .
• Daughter of the black city. January 2015 ISBN 978-3-442-26980-8 .
• The legacy of the scorpion. May 2015 ISBN 978-3-7341-6011-0 .

Individual evidence

1. ↑ ^{a b c d} Angelika Mandryk, Judith Madera: Torsten Fink (August 6, 2012). In: literatopia.de. August 6, 2012, accessed July 16, 2018 . 
2. ↑ Torsten Fink (author) - Blanvalet. In: randomhouse.de. Retrieved July 16, 2018 . 

Web links

• Interview with Torsten Fink, August 2012
• Literature by and about Torsten Fink in the catalog of the German National Library