Petra Hammesfahr
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Petra Hammesfahr (born 10 May 1951 in Titz, North Rhine-Westphalia) is an acclaimed German crime writer. She has won several awards, including the Crime Prize of Wiesbaden and the Rhineland Literary Prize.[1][2]
She published her first novel at the age of 17, and has been compared[by whom?] to Patricia Highsmith, Ruth Rendell, and Stephen King (as a reflection of her bestseller-status in her native Germany).[citation needed]
Her novel The Sinner was published to wide acclaim in English by Bitter Lemon Press in 2007/2008 (and again recently[when?] in the United States by Penguin Books), translated from the original by John Brownjohn.[3][4][5] The Sinner has been adapted for television by USA Network as an eight-episode limited series starring Jessica Biel and Bill Pullman, set to premiere on August 2, 2017.
A second novel, The Lie, was also published by Bitter Lemon Press.[citation needed]
Hammesfahr lives in Kerpen, a town near Cologne.[citation needed]
References
- ^ Klaus Spangenmacher. "Interview mit Petra Hammesfahr" (in German). Stephen-king.de. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ^ "Petra Hammesfahr". bitterlemonpress.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
- ^ "The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr". PenguinRandomHouse.com.
- ^ "The Sinner/Petra Hammedfahr". Publishers Weekly. December 24, 2007. Translated from the German by John Brownjohn; release date (U.S.): February 1, 2008. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
- ^ "Petra Hammesfahr: The Sinner". Bitter Lemon Press. bitterlemonpress.com. Retrieved 2 August 2017.
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