Charlotte Link (born 5 October 1963) is a German writer. She is among the most successful contemporary authors writing in German.[1]
Life
Charlotte Link is the daughter of well-known German writer and journalist Almuth Link. She wrote her first work, Die schöne Helena, when she was just 16 years old and published it at the age of 19.
She is known as much for novels about contemporary life as for psychological detective novels in the English manner. Her books Sturmzeit, Wilde Lupinen, and Die Stunde der Erben form a trilogy. These, among others, have been filmed for TV series for the German television station ZDF.
Her novel Am Ende des Schweigens was nominated in 2004 for the fiction category of the Deutsche Bücherpreis (German Book Prize), while her book Die Rosenzüchterin, published in 2000, remained for several weeks at the top of the Spiegel bestseller list.
Selected works
Awards
In 2007, Link was awarded the Goldene Feder (Golden Feather) for her literary achievements.
Bibliography
- Olaf Kutzmutz, ed. (2009). Bestseller: Das Beispiel Charlotte Link[Bestsellers: The example of Charlotte Link]. Wolfenbütteler Akademie-Texte (in German). Vol. 46. Wolfenbüttel: Bundesakademie für kulturelle Bildung. ISBN 978-3-929622-46-1.
References
- ↑"Charlotte Link". radiobremen.de (in German). 22 October 2019. Archived from the original on 28 January 2020. Retrieved 12 March 2020.
- ↑In the Valley of the Fox
- ↑Rottmann, Kerstin (11 September 2014). "Sei doch einfach froh, dass Du atmen kannst"[Just Be Glad That You Can Breathe]. Die Welt (in German). Retrieved 12 March 2020.
- ↑Cheated
External links
- portal.d-nb.de Books by or about Charlotte Link in the German National Library. (in German)
- Charlotte Link at IMDb
- People from Wiesbaden
- 1963 births
- German crime fiction writers
- Living people
- German women novelists
- Women crime fiction writers