Rebecca Gablé (born 25 September 1964) is a German author of
historical fiction
Historical fiction is a literary genre in which a fictional plot takes place in the Setting (narrative), setting of particular real past events, historical events. Although the term is commonly used as a synonym for historical fiction literatur ...
. Gablé is best known for her medieval chivalry romances. She also works as a literary translator from English.
After, leaving school, in 1984 she embarked on a one-year apprenticeship as a trainee bank clerk. The one-year apprenticeship became four years as a bank worker. During that time she was living close to a
military base
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used by the British
Royal Air Force
The Royal Air Force (RAF) is the Air force, air and space force of the United Kingdom, British Overseas Territories and Crown Dependencies. It was formed towards the end of the World War I, First World War on 1 April 1918, on the merger of t ...
: she came into contact with the personnel there. This led to an intense interest in English language and culture, reflected regularly in her subsequent literary output.
The commercial breakthrough came in 1997 with her first historical novel "Das Lächeln der Fortuna" (The Smile of Fortuna), of which in the first year after publication about 200,000 copies were sold. From 1999 to 2000, she was a lecturer at the
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf
Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf ( HHU; ), named after German poet Heinrich Heine, is a public university in North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany, which was founded in 1965. It is the successor organization to Düsseldorf's Medical Academy of ...
in Old English literature. In 2000 she published "Das zweite Königreich" (The Second Kingdom), another history novel. Since then, Gablé has turned to the writing of historical novels, all of which went up in the bestseller lists. In addition to the ongoing series about the history of the (fictional) Waringham family, which is closely linked to the English ruling houses of the Middle Ages and the early modern period, Gablé wrote other novels, which also play in the Middle Ages.
Works
In English:
* ''Fortune's Wheel''
* ''
The Settlers of Catan,''
based on
the board game of the same name by
Klaus Teuber
Klaus Wilhelm Heinrich Teuber (25 June 1952 – 1 April 2023) was a German board game designer best known as the creator of ''Catan''. Originally working as a dental technician, he began designing games first as a hobby then as a full-time care ...
. The novel was the inspiration for the
Catan Adventures series of games: ''
Candamir'' and ''
Elasund''.
In German:
* Detective novels
** ''Jagdfieber'', 1995
** ''Die Farben des Chamäleons'', 1996
** ''Das letzte Allegretto'', 1998
** ''Das Floriansprinzip'', 1999
* Waringham series
** ''Das Lächeln der Fortuna'', 1997 (''Fortune's Wheel'')
** ''Die Hüter der Rose'', 2005
** ''Das Spiel der Könige'', 2007
** ''Der dunkle Thron'', 2011
** ''Der Palast der Meere'', 2015
** ''Teufelskrone'', 2019
** ''Drachenbanner'', 2022
* Helmsby series
** ''Das Zweite Königreich'', 2000
** ''Hiobs Brüder'', 2009
*
Otto the Great
Otto I (23 November 912 – 7 May 973), known as Otto the Great ( ) or Otto of Saxony ( ), was East Frankish ( German) king from 936 and Holy Roman Emperor from 962 until his death in 973. He was the eldest son of Henry the Fowler and Matilda ...
series
** ''Das Haupt der Welt'', 2013
** ''Die fremde Königin'', 2017
* Other historical novels
** ''Der König der purpurnen Stadt'', 2002 (with slight references to Waringham series)
* Other books
** ''Von Ratlosen und Löwenherzen'', 2008 (
popular science
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book about the English Middle Ages)
References
External links
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Living people
20th-century German novelists
21st-century German novelists
1964 births
German women novelists
21st-century German women writers
20th-century German women writers