Zoë Jenny

Zoë Jenny ( born March 16, 1974 in Basel ) is a Swiss writer.

Life

Zoë Jenny was born in Basel, the daughter of the publisher Matthyas Jenny and a painter. She grew up in Basel, in Greece and in Carona in Ticino.

1997 her first novel was published in The Pollen Room, who achieved bestseller status and has been translated into 27 languages ​​worldwide. They undertook extensive lecture tours in the United States, China and Japan; at times she lived in New York and Berlin.

Published in 1999 the novel The Call of the conch. 2002 Zoë Jenny was adjudicator at the International Film Festival of Locarno. She was a columnist for Time, the Financial Times and the Swiss magazine.

2000 appeared the children's book agent Speck's voyage around the world. In the same year the novel A fast-paced life, a modern adaptation of Romeo and Juliet theme appeared. This was followed by the portrait, an artist novel and 2010 who wrote in the English language novel The Sky is Changing. 2013, the volume of stories appeared later than tomorrow.

Jenny is an ambassador of the Swiss children's and youth organization Pro Juventute.

Also, due to her own childhood experiences, she went to an article published in the newspaper Die Welt article with reform pedagogy and alternative scene of the 1980s harshly. Referring to Pädophiliedebatte of the Green reference, she criticized the learning of resistance ( as she calls them ) " do-gooders ", "In the left - green communities of the seventies and eighties children lived highly dangerous. Free felt especially the adults who exceeded all limits in a misunderstood liberality. " As a student she had attended from 1982 to 1984, the educational reform Free Elementary School Basel.

Awards

Works

  • The Pollen Room. Novel. FVA, Frankfurt am Main 1997, ISBN 3-627-00052-8. in paperback: btb, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-442-72383-3.
  • As an audio book: Abridged version, read by Alexandra Henkel. 2 MCs. Tandem, King Winter 1998.
  • In paperback: btb, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-442-72692-1.
  • In paperback: dtv, Munich 2002, ISBN 3-423-62121-4.
  • In paperback: Structure, Berlin 2003, ISBN 3-7466-2059-7.
  • As an audio book: Reading with Sascha Icks. Production: Southwest Broadcasting. 3 CDs. DAV, Berlin, 2002.
  • In paperback: btb, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-442-73905-9.
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