Petra Hammesfahr (; born 10 May 1951) is a German crime writer. She has won several awards, including the
Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the
Rhineland Literary Prize.
Hammesfahr was born in
Immerath (Erkelenz)
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,
North Rhine-Westphalia
North Rhine-Westphalia (german: Nordrhein-Westfalen, ; li, Noordrien-Wesfale ; nds, Noordrhien-Westfalen; ksh, Noodrhing-Wäßßfaale), commonly shortened to NRW (), is a States of Germany, state (''Land'') in Western Germany. With more tha ...
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Her first novel was published in 1991, followed by more than a dozen more and significant popular success by the middle of that decade.
She published over 40 novels in German. Her novel ''The Sinner'' was published in English by
Bitter Lemon Press
Bitter Lemon Press is a small London-based independent publisher, set up by Francois von Hurter in 2003 which specialises in translated literary crime novels and romans noirs from abroad. They currently publish novels by authors such as Gianri ...
in 2007 and again in 2017 in the United States by
Penguin Books
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Career
John Brownjohn translated more than 160 books, and won the Schlegel-Tieck Prize for German translation three times and the Helen and Kurt Wolf ...]
. ''The Sinner'' has been adapted for television by
USA Network
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as
an eight-episode limited series starring
Jessica Biel
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Biel be ...
and
Bill Pullman
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, and premiered on 2 August 2017. Despite initially being a limited series, the show would be renewed for three more seasons, finally ending on December 1, 2021.
A second translated novel, ''The Lie'', was published by Bitter Lemon Press in 2010.
The Lie/Petra Hammesfahr
. ''Publishers Weekly''. 22 March 2010. Translated from the German by Mike Mitchell; release date (U.S.): 1 April 2010. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
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References
External links
– NRW Literatur im Netz
NRW Literatur im Netz is a German internet database with short biographies of persons who have lived or worked in North Rhine-Westphalia. The Westphälische Literaturbüro (Westphalian office for literature) in Unna operates the biggest database ...
1951 births
Living people
People from Düren (district)
German crime fiction writers
German women novelists
Women mystery writers
20th-century German novelists
20th-century German women writers
21st-century German novelists
21st-century German women writers
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