Zoë Ferraris
Zoe Ferraris (* 5. June 1970 in Oklahoma ) is an American author of detective novels .
life and work
At the age of 19 she married her then husband, a Bedouin , and lived with him and their daughter in Jeddah , Saudi Arabia , in a devout Muslim community for a year . Her time in Saudi Arabia forms the background to her novels. In 2006 she completed her studies at Columbia University New York with an MFA in fiction . 2007, the first published their previous three detective novels Finding Nouf (dt. The last sura ). The Bedouin Nayir ash-Sharqi, a Palestinian desert guide, and the pathologist Katya Hijazi investigate the murder of sixteen-year-old Nouf, the daughter of a rich and influential family from Jeddah. In City of Veils (dt. Dead verse ), clarify again Nayir ash-Sharqi and Katya Hijazi this time the murder of Leila Nawar, a young filmmaker on the 2009 appeared. Ferrari's third crime novel Kingdom of Strangers was published in 2012. The German translation was published in 2014 under the title Wüstenblut . Ferraris lives in San Francisco.
Awards
Ferraris received the Santa Barbara Writer's Conference's Mystery Fiction Award for her first novel .
Books
- The last sura ( Finding Nouf ), German by Matthias Müller, Pendo Verlag, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-86612-129-4
- Totenverse ( City of Veils ), German by Ulrike Wasel and Klaus Timmermann, Pendo Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-86612-232-1
- Wüstenblut ( Kingdom of Strangers ), German by Karin Dufner, Pendo Verlag 2014, ISBN 978-3-86612-375-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Zoë Ferraris in the catalog of the German National Library
- Official website of Zoë Ferraris
- Zoë Ferraris at Krimicouch
Individual evidence
- ↑ Review by Anita Bolte on "Siam Today"
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Ferraris, Zoë |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American crime novelist |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 5th June 1970 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Oklahoma |