Veronica Roth
Veronica Roth (born August 19, 1988 in New York City ) is an American writer .
Life
Veronica Roth grew up in the Chicago suburb of Barrington . She studied Creative Writing at Northwestern University and graduated in 2010. At the age of twenty she began working on her first novel, which she wrote from the point of view of the character Tobias, and then put it aside to come back to later. In 2011 it was published under the title Divergent . It was on the New York Times bestseller list for a week and was published in German in 2012 under the title The Determination . In the same year, the second part of the series, The Determination - Deadly Truth (Insurgent) appeared . In 2013, Roth concluded the trilogy with The Determination - Final Decision (Allegiant) .
The film version of the first novel came to the cinemas in 2014 with The Determination - Divergent . The filming of the second part was titled The Determination - Insurgent from March 2015. The third part will be filmed in two parts, of which the first part The Determination - Allegiant Part 1 started on March 17, 2016 in German cinemas.
Works
- The determination . cbt-Verlag, Munich 2012, 478 pages, ISBN 978-3-570-16131-9 ( Divergent , 2011)
- The Destiny - Deadly Truth . cbt-Verlag, Munich 2012, 512 pages, ISBN 3-570-16156-0 ( Insurgent , 2012)
- The determination - the final decision . cbt-Verlag, Munich 2014, 450 pages, ISBN 3-570-16157-9 ( Allegiant , 2013)
- The Destiny - Four's Story. cbt-Verlag, Munich 2014, 319 pages, ISBN 978-3-570-16363-4 ( Four: A Divergent Story Collection , 2014)
- Council of Nine - Signed . cbj-Verlag, Munich 2019, 608 pages, ISBN 978-3-641-20793-9 ( Carve the Mark , 2017)
- Council of the Nine - Against Fate . cbj-Verlag, Munich 2019, 544 pages, ISBN 978-3-570-16503-4 ( The Fates Divide , 2018)
Short stories
- Hearken , 2013
- Ark , 2019
- Armored Ones , 2019
- Inertia 2019
- The Spinners , 2019
- The Transformationist , 2019
- Vim and Vigor , 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Veronica Roth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Veronica Roth in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Veronica Roth in theInternet Movie Database(English)
- Works by and about Veronica Roth at Open Library
- Veronica Roth official website with blog
Individual evidence
- ↑ Natalie Wainwright: 'Divergent': A Bestseller Built in Evanston ( English ) In: Evanston Round Table ( Evanston, Illinois ) . July 5, 2011. Retrieved on March 25, 2014: “She was born in New York, but her father's work in energy trading took the family to Hong Kong and Germany when she was growing up. They finally wound up in Barrington , where they still live. "
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SURNAME | Roth, Veronica |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 19th August 1988 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | New York City |