Jan Costin Wagner

Jan Costin Wagner ( born October 13, 1972 in Langen ( Hessen) ) is a German writer.

Wagner holds a degree in German and History at the University of Frankfurt am Main, where he graduated with a thesis on Adalbert Stifter. He wrote seven crime novels so far, five of whom play in Finland and have the melancholy to his deceased wife grieving Commissioner Joentaa the protagonist. The Joentaa novels have been translated into 14 languages.

Jan Costin Wagner is an active member of the German national author. He lives in Frankfurt am Main and in Finland, the home of his wife.

Awards

• 2002 Marlowe - National Category for night driving
• 2003 Artist residency of the Berlin Senate at the Literary Colloquium Berlin
• 2004 Award for Hans -Erich Nossack Price
• 2008 German Thriller Prize (3rd place) for The Silence
• 2012 Crime of 2011 (No. 10) in the crime -time leaderboard for the light in a dark house

Works

• 2002 night drive. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-8218-0700-8. ( Crime novel )
• 2003 ice moon. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-8218-0699-0. ( Detective novel of Kimmo - Joentaa series)
• 2005 Schattentag. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-8218-0756-3. ( Crime novel )
• 2007 The Silence. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 3-8218-0757-1. ( Detective novel of Kimmo - Joentaa series)
• 2009 In the winter of lions. Eichborn, Frankfurt am Main, ISBN 978-3-8218-0758-4. ( Detective novel of Kimmo - Joentaa series)
• 2011: The light in a dark house. Galiani Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86971-016-7. ( Detective novel of Kimmo - Joentaa series)
• 2014: days of the last snow. Galiani Verlag, Berlin, ISBN 978-3-86971-017-4. ( Detective novel of Kimmo - Joentaa series)

Films

• The Silence, Eng. Title The Silence, directed by Baran bo Odar, D 2010 Based on the novel The Silence. .