Jasper Fforde

Jasper Fforde ( born January 11, 1961 in London ) is a British writer and cinematographer.

Life

Fforde is a full assistant camera ( eg for the James Bond film GoldenEye or the movie The Saint - The Man With No Name ).

In 2001 he published his first novel, The Eyre Affair (German: The case Jane Eyre ) to the protagonist Thursday Next, the rise in the British bestseller lists. The Thursday -Next series was continued until 2012 with six other volumes. The novels are set in a fictional parallel world in which reality and fantasy mix.

2005 began Fforde a new series of novels about the " Nursery Crime Division ." The first volume of The Big Over Easy is based on Ffordes first previously unpublished book manuscript that had been rejected by 76 publishers. Protagonist of the series is Detective Inspector Jack Spratt, a minor character from the Thursday -Next - Roman fountain in the manuscripts. The action takes place in a fictional version of the English town of Reading, in the figures of speech also rhymes and fairy tales live. In the summer of 2006 appeared The Fourth Bear, the second novel of the Nursery Crimes series.

Created in 2009 with Fforde Shades of Grey 1: The Road to High Saffron a new, laid out on three volumes Roman world in which democracy has been in a distant future be replaced by a " Colourtocracy ". In a world of more or less color-blind decides the ability to recognize colors, on the social status.

In 2010 he wrote his first children's book entitled The Last Dragonslayer, this also plays in an England which has medieval elements. The second volume of " The Song of the quark Beast " was released in 2011.

The books belong to the genre of alternate reality stories and contain elements of crime fiction, fantasy and comedy. They are characterized by their intertextuality, word games and a nonlinear storyline.

Fforde offers on its website version update of his books and a forum to where fans of self-written stories or parodies for Thursday - next- series can publish.

Jasper Fforde is related by marriage to the British writer Katie Fforde: His cousin Desmond Fforde is her husband.

Works

Thursday - next- series

  • The Eyre Affair, 2001 (English: The case of Jane Eyre dtv: Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24379-1. )
  • Lost in a Good Book, 2002 ( Eng.: In another book dtv: Munich 2004, ISBN 3-423-24430-5. )
  • The Well of Lost Plots, 2003 (English: The fountain of manuscripts dtv: Munich 2005, ISBN 3-423-24464- X. )
  • Something Rotten, 2004 ( Eng.: There is something rotten dtv. Munich 2006 ISBN 3-423-24568-9 )
  • First Among Sequels, 2007 ( Eng.: Somewhere quite different dtv: Munich 2009, ISBN 3-423-24758-4. )
  • One of Our Thursdays is Missing, 2011 ( Eng.: Where is Thursday Next dtv: Munich 2012 ISBN 978-3423249157. )
  • The Woman Who Died a Lot, Hodder & Stoughton 2012, ISBN 978-0340963111 (not yet published in German )
  • Dark Reading Matter ( planned)

Nursery Crimes series

  • The Big Over Easy, 2005
  • The Fourth Bear, 2006

Eddie Russett series

  • Shades of Grey - The Road to High Saffron, 2009 (Eng.: Grey Eichborn Publisher: Frankfurt am Main 2011, ISBN 3-821-86140-1. . )

Dragonslayer series

  • The Last Dragonslayer, Hodder & Stoughton: 2010 ISBN 1-444-70717-5
  • The Song of the quark Beast, 2011

Awards

  • 2004 Dilys Award for Lost in a Good Book (German: In another book ).
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