Jojo Moyes

Jojo Moyes (born 1969 in London) is a British journalist and writer.

Life

Jojo Moyes grew up in London and worked out of school in several occupations before they both at Bedford College and at the Royal Holloway, University of London colleges, respectively, studied. With a financed by The Independent Scholarship, which she won in 1992, she was finally able to successfully study journalism at City University London. With the exception that they lived for a year in Hong Kong in 1994 and wrote for the Sunday Morning Post, Moyes then worked for almost ten years at the Independent in different functions.

With shelterin Rain, which in the same year under the German title The Women of Kilcarrion when Random House published, Moyes in 2002 debuted as a writer. From then on, she concentrated fully on writing and was only sporadically worked as a columnist, including for the The Daily Telegraph. For her second novel Foreign Fruit, which was relocated in German language as the house of recurrence, she won her first Romantic Novel of the Year Award from the British Romantic Novelists ' Association. As one of the few authors they received the award in 2011 with The Last Letter From Your Lover, which under the title A handful of words was transferred to German language, for the second time.

Your biggest success so far had Moyes, however, with her 2012 novel, A whole half a year (Me Before You ). The love story about a young woman who nurse a paraplegic rich man's will, became a worldwide success and was translated into over 31 languages ​​. In Germany it was published in March 2013 with an initial print run of 120,000 copies in the Random House and was sold over 1.2 million copies, the most successful novel of 2013. Together with a handful of words she sold in 2013 in Germany alone, more than 2 million copies. The Hollywood film studio MGM acquired in January 2013, the film rights to A whole half a year.

With her husband and their three children Moyes lives in Saffron Walden, in the county of Essex.

Work

  • Sheltering Rain ( 2002) The Women of Kilcarrion, Random House 2002, ISBN 3-8052-0728- X
  • The House of recurrence, Wunderlich 2003, ISBN 3-8052-0763-8
  • Suzanna's coffee shop, Wunderlich 2005, ISBN 3-8052-0782-4
  • So close to heaven, Page & Turner 2008, ISBN 978-3-442-20321-5
  • The sound of the heart, Goldmann Verlag 2010, ISBN 978-3-442-47070-9
  • A handful of words, Weltbild Verlag 2012, ISBN 978-3-86365-161-9
  • A whole half a year, Random House, 2013, ISBN 978-3-499-26703-1
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