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swanchikaBecause starting with the author is generally a good idea.
Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, better-known under her nom de plume, was born on June 7, 1957, in Paris. She has a PHD in History, and wrote a thesis on the plague epidemics in the Middle Ages. She's an archaeozoologist, studying the relationships between men and animal throughout the Middle Ages. Her first novel, Les Jeux de l'amour et de la mort, was published in 1986. In 1991, with L'Homme aux Cercles Bleus (The Chalk Circle Man) she created one of her most famous characters, Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, along with his deputy, Adrien Danglard. Her next novel, Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent, published in 1994, starred a different main character, and so did her fourth, Debout les morts (The Three Evangelists), published in 1995. While Richard Valence, the protagonist of Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent, never appeared again, the eponymous Evangelists became recurring characters. From then, her novels can be divided in two "cycles", the Evangelists cycle starring Marc Vandoosler, Matthias Delamarre, Lucien Devernois and Louis Kehlweiler (as of Un peu plus loin sur la droite, published in 1996), and the Adamsberg cycle. Her novels have been very successful both in France and abroad, and she was awarded the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger along with her translator Siân Reynolds thrice (in 2006, 2007 and 2009).
Her pseudonym is a tribute to Maria Vargas, Ava Gardner's character in The Barefoot Contessa ; similarly, her twin sister Joëlle (a modern painter) adopted Jo Vargas as her pseudonym. She also has an older brother, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, a prominent WWI historian.
Her other writings include a controversial defense of far-left militant (charged of four murders) and crime writer Cesare Battisti, and two essays : Petit Traité de toutes Vérités sur l'Existence (2001) and Critique de l'Anxiété Pure (2003)
Some of her books were adapted into TV movies by Josée Dayan : Sous Les Vents de Neptune (in two parts), L'Homme aux Cercles Bleus, L'Homme à l'Envers and Un Lieu Incertain. There's also a Pars Vite et Reviens Tard movie, directed by Régis Warnier.
To sum up, here's her bibliography :
Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, better-known under her nom de plume, was born on June 7, 1957, in Paris. She has a PHD in History, and wrote a thesis on the plague epidemics in the Middle Ages. She's an archaeozoologist, studying the relationships between men and animal throughout the Middle Ages. Her first novel, Les Jeux de l'amour et de la mort, was published in 1986. In 1991, with L'Homme aux Cercles Bleus (The Chalk Circle Man) she created one of her most famous characters, Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, along with his deputy, Adrien Danglard. Her next novel, Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent, published in 1994, starred a different main character, and so did her fourth, Debout les morts (The Three Evangelists), published in 1995. While Richard Valence, the protagonist of Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent, never appeared again, the eponymous Evangelists became recurring characters. From then, her novels can be divided in two "cycles", the Evangelists cycle starring Marc Vandoosler, Matthias Delamarre, Lucien Devernois and Louis Kehlweiler (as of Un peu plus loin sur la droite, published in 1996), and the Adamsberg cycle. Her novels have been very successful both in France and abroad, and she was awarded the Duncan Lawrie International Dagger along with her translator Siân Reynolds thrice (in 2006, 2007 and 2009).
Her pseudonym is a tribute to Maria Vargas, Ava Gardner's character in The Barefoot Contessa ; similarly, her twin sister Joëlle (a modern painter) adopted Jo Vargas as her pseudonym. She also has an older brother, Stéphane Audoin-Rouzeau, a prominent WWI historian.
Her other writings include a controversial defense of far-left militant (charged of four murders) and crime writer Cesare Battisti, and two essays : Petit Traité de toutes Vérités sur l'Existence (2001) and Critique de l'Anxiété Pure (2003)
Some of her books were adapted into TV movies by Josée Dayan : Sous Les Vents de Neptune (in two parts), L'Homme aux Cercles Bleus, L'Homme à l'Envers and Un Lieu Incertain. There's also a Pars Vite et Reviens Tard movie, directed by Régis Warnier.
To sum up, here's her bibliography :
- The Three Evangelists cycle
- 1995 - Debout les morts ; English translation : The Three Evangelists, 2006, (Prix Mystère de la critique ; International Dagger award)
- 1996 - Un peu plus loin sur la droite
- 1997 - Sans feu ni lieu
- Commissaire Adamsberg cycle
- 1991 - L'Homme aux cercles bleus ; English title: The Chalk Circle Man, 2009 (International Dagger award)
- 1999 - L'Homme à l'envers ; English title : Seeking Who He May Devour, 2004, (Prix Mystère de la critique)
- 2000 - Les quatre fleuves ; English title : The Four Rivers. Graphic novel (with Edmond Baudoin)
- 2001 - Pars vite et reviens tard ; English title : Have Mercy On Us All, 2003 (Prix des libraires)
- 2004 - Sous les vents de Neptune ; English title : Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand, 2007 (International Dagger award)
- 2006 - Dans les bois éternels ; English title : This Night's Foul Work, 2008
- 2008 - Un lieu incertain ; English title : An Uncertain Place, 2011
- 2011 - L'armée furieuse ; English title : The Ghost Riders of Ordebec, 2013
- Other novels
- 1986 - Les Jeux de l'amour et de la mort (Prix du festival de Cognac)
- 1994 - Ceux qui vont mourir te saluent
- Essays and other works
- 2001 - Petit Traité de toutes vérités sur l'existence
- 2003 - Critique de l'anxiété pure
- 2004 - La Vérité sur Cesare Battisti
