Petra Hammesfahr

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]

Her first novel was published in 1991, followed by more than a dozen more and significant popular success by the middle of that decade.

Her novel The Sinner was published to wide acclaim in English by Bitter Lemon Press in 2007/2008 (and again recently 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 published by Bitter Lemon Press in 2010.[6]

Hammesfahr lives in Kerpen, a town near Cologne.

References

  1. ↑ Klaus Spangenmacher. "Interview mit Petra Hammesfahr" (in German). Stephen-king.de. Retrieved 2010-04-14.
  2. ↑ "Petra Hammesfahr". bitterlemonpress.com. Retrieved 14 April 2010.
  3. ↑ "The Sinner by Petra Hammesfahr". PenguinRandomHouse.com.
  4. ↑ "The Sinner/Petra Hammesfahr". Publishers Weekly. December 24, 2007. Translated from the German by John Brownjohn; release date (U.S.): February 1, 2008. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  5. ↑ "Petra Hammesfahr: The Sinner". Bitter Lemon Press. bitterlemonpress.com. Retrieved 2017-08-02.
  6. ↑ "The Lie/Petra Hammesfahr". Publishers Weekly. March 22, 2010. Translated from the German by Mike Mitchell; release date (U.S.): April 1, 2010. Retrieved 2017-08-02.


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