Nancy Farmer

Nancy Farmer ( born July 9, 1941 in Phoenix, Arizona) is an American children's author.

• 2.1 The Trolls Saga
• 2.2 Awards

Biography

America & Youth

Due to the uncertain circumstances in Phoenix, the family decided to move to a quieter area. They moved to Yuma, where Nancy's father was the hotel manager. Nancy Farmer has two much older siblings. When Nancy was six months old, she got mumps and almost succumbed to the disease, so their growth was hampered for many years. Nancy was therefore as a child a lot of attention and has been well looked after by her sister Mary, so they developed a big ego. As a primary school child already she often stayed on at the hotel reception at ihremVater where she overheard the stories of travelers.

School time

Her siblings had skipped several grades due to their intelligence, Nancy, however, it was not allowed to do the same, because the Director was of the opinion that every child would have the same intellectual potential and therefore no one should skip a grade. Nancy Farmer himself expressed this: "This is blighted my education" The girl was very intelligent and started at school to get bored because the school was uninspiring and so she began to tagzuträumen. In addition, Nancy always felt like an outsider who did not fit into society. One of the reasons was that their parents were very old and she was born so many years after their siblings. The feeling of being an outsider disappeared, never entirely until she came to Berkeley, where at the Department of Entomology ( Entomology ) worked. In the seventh grade, she started skipping school. During this time they read a lot. She worked her way through C. S. Forrester, J. D. Salinger, John Steinbeck, George Elliot, Tennessee Williams, Maupassant, Victor Hugo through. Since Nancy was expelled from school because of her bad behavior, she was sent to Portland on the Reed College.

India / America & University

After graduating in 1963, she joined a non-governmental organization and was sent to India from 1963 to 1965. When she returned to the U.S., she first took a job as a newspaper seller on the street in Berkeley. You got a job at the Institute of Entomology and participated in courses in chemistry. She liked Berkeley, because everything was accepted during the hippie era and the Vietamkriegsprotesten. She took part in demonstrations. She lived during this period in a residential community. Nevertheless, she decided, looking for new challenges and adventures to go to Africa.

Africa & the beginning of the writing career

She spent more than a year on the lake Cahora Bassa in Mozambique and supervised the limitation of aquatic plants, which could be the dam dangerous. Then she was asked to contribute to make combat the tsetse fly. She then spent some time in Harare, Zimbabwe's capital, where she met her future husband, Harold Farmer. Just a few weeks after their first meeting in 1976, she married Harold. After the birth of her son, Nancy Farmer was depressed because she could no longer work as a scientist. Although she loved her child, she was not satisfied with her mother role. She needed a change. When her son was four years old, she read a book by Marjorie Foster and came up with the idea of ​​writing itself. It dealt to practice writing with writers like Stephen Kind and Edgar Rice Burroughs. Consequently, she was with some stories at the writing contest " Writers of the Future Contest" and won one of the four annual awards. With the money the Farmers moved to the USA. For a time, Nancy Farmer worked at Stanford at the Institute of Genetics. After Nancy Farmer? " Do You Know Me" won another competition with the short story, it was possible to devote her himself entirely to writing. Today the author lives in Menlo Park, California.

Works

• Continuation of " The Scorpio house"

The Trolls Saga

Awards

• 2002 National Book Award for Young People 's Literature for The House of the Scorpion
• 2004 Buxtehude Bull for the best narrative German -speaking young people Book of the Year in 2003 for The Scorpion House

Review

" Nancy Farmer [ ... ] white [ ... ] on a historical background to build a fantastic world in which the reader next to the rough Northmen, their customs and beliefs too soon can experience a representation of Norse mythology [ ... ]. Dragon Sea is [ ... ] a historical fantasy novel [ ... ], which does not need to hide behind some preisgekrönnten works. "