Fred Vargas
Author · 63 books
Fred Vargas (born 1957) is a French crime writer and trained archaeologist. She studied history, earned a doctorate in archaeozoology, and worked at France’s Centre national de la recherche scientifique (CNRS) in Paris. She is particularly known for her crime novels featuring the unconventional investigator Jean-Baptiste Adamsberg. In 2004, she received the German Crime Fiction Prize for »Fliehe weit und schnell«; in 2012, she was awarded the European Crime Fiction Prize for her body of work. In 2016, she received the German Crime Fiction Prize in the International category for »Das barmherzige Fallbeil«.