About
Fred Vargas, born Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau on June 7, 1957 in Paris, is a French archaeozoologist and novelist. She earned a PhD in history from the Sorbonne and worked as a researcher at the CNRS from 1988, specializing in the study of plague epidemics. Alongside her scientific career, she became a major figure in French crime fiction with her series featuring Commissaire Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg, which began with 'The Blue Circles Man' (1991). Her work, translated into some forty languages, has received numerous awards, including the CWA International Dagger four times and the Princess of Asturias Award in 2018.
* 1957-06-07
Major works
- L'Homme aux cercles bleus (1991)novel
- Debout les morts (1995)novel
- Pars vite et reviens tard (2001)novel
- Les chemins de la peste : le rat, la puce et l'homme (2003)scientific study
- L'Armée furieuse (2011)novel
Key milestones
- 1988Becomes a researcher at the CNRS, specializing in archaeozoology.
- 2006Wins the CWA International Dagger for the first time.
- 2018Receives the Princess of Asturias Award for Literature.
Themes
police investigationhistory and memoryscience and archaeologymarginal characterssupernatural and mystery
Sources: fpa.es · catalogue.bnf.fr · id.loc.gov