Verena C. Harksen
Verena C. Harksen (born May 17, 1942 in Berlin ; born Verena Charlotte Wussow ) is a German translator , editor and writer . She also publishes under the pen name Adelaide Nerev .
Life
Verena C. Harksen comes from an old Berlin family of lawyers who came to Frankfurt am Main by airlift in 1948 and then moved to Kronberg im Taunus . There she went to school. She passed her Abitur in 1962 at the Hermann-Lietz-Schule Schloss Hohenwehrda . In the sixth semester she broke off a law degree that she began in Frankfurt and continued in Würzburg to work in the insurance industry, first for Zürcher Versicherung , and from 1978 as an industrial broker for large-scale industry. In 1968 she married the bookseller Hans-Gustav Harksen. Since 1969 she has worked part-time as a writer and reviewer (including for Brigitte ) and has translated from English ( Barbara Wood , Marion Zimmer Bradley , Tad Williams , Philip José Farmer , Arthur Lee Gould , Elizabeth Ann Scarborough and others). From 1986 to 1989 she published the Library of Fantastic Adventures at S. Fischer Verlag , in which she published Terence H. White , Thorne Smith , Kingsley Amis , Peter Tremayne and others for the first time in German.
Since 1985 she has been self-employed with a so-called office for literary casual work , publishes fantasy and science fiction stories in anthologies and occasionally writes commissioned works (novels about film). Since 1999 she has put the translations on hold in order to devote herself entirely to novel writing and reviewing. Her novel Die Westentaschenvenus was filmed in 2002 (director: Kirsten Peters).
Works
Novels
- 1990 In Search of Fantasies (novel based on the film The Neverending Story 2 )
- 1992 The Great Bellheim (novel about the film, with Dieter Wedel ; also translated into Italian )
- 1999 Happiness is plump
- 2002 The vest pocket venus
- 2003 The diamond pug
As editor
- 1985 The country behind the mirrors
- 1986 The dragon behind the mirrors
- 1986 The night of the five moons
- 1988 The ruby. Romantic German fantasies
- 1986–1989 Library of Fantastic Adventures (53 volumes)
Web links
- Literature by and about Verena C. Harksen in the catalog of the German National Library
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harksen, Verena C. |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German translator, editor and writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | May 17, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Berlin |