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Fred Vargas
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French writer, archaeologist and historian
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Fred Vargas, born Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau in Paris, France, on June 7, 1957, is a French novelist, archaeologist, historian, and author. She writes in French and began her professional work period in 1986. Vargas is a citizen of France and was educated at the University of Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne. Her career has included employment at the National Center for Scientific Research and the Pasteur Institute.
Her literary output includes 123 works, with notable titles such as *L'homme aux cercles bleus*, *Das barmherzige Fallbeil*, and *L'Uomo a Rovescio (Italian Edition)*. She writes primarily in the genre of crime literature. Vargas has received several awards, including the prix des Libraires, the CWA International Dagger, the German Crime Fiction Award, and the Princess of Asturias Literary Prize.
Synthesized by Vinony from 38 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Open Library, Crossref, MusicBrainz, Last.fm, TMDb, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Works
- 123
Top works
- Gialli d'inverno
- L'homme aux cercles bleus
- Das barmherzige Fallbeil
- מקום לא בטוח
- L'Uomo a Rovescio (Italian Edition)
via Open Library + Wikidata
Film & TV
Writing · Paris, France
Known for
- Dates That Made History — Self2018
via TMDB
Music · MusicBrainz
- Type
- Person
- Gender
- Female
- Origin
- France
- Active from
- 1957
Discography
via MusicBrainz · CC0
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 499
- Total plays
- 23,906
Tags
<a href="https://www.last.fm/music/Fred+Vargas">Read more on Last.fm</a>
Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology
· 1989 · cited 45,511x
- Colorimetric Method for Determination of Sugars and Related Substances
· 1956 · cited 42,303x
- Social Identity Theory and the Organization
· 1989 · cited 31,634x
- User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1
· 2003 · cited 31,108x
- Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2
· 2019 · cited 20,887x
via Crossref · CC0
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1957-06-07 ) 7 June 1957 (age 68) , Paris, France
- Pen name
- Fred Vargas
- Occupation
- Medieval historian and archaeologist; writer
- Genre
- Crime fiction
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau (born 7 June 1957), a French historian, archaeologist and novelist.
As a historian and archeologist, she is known for her work on the Black Death. Her crime fiction policiers (police procedurals) have won three International Dagger Awards from the Crime Writers' Association, for three successive novels: in 2006, 2007 and 2009. She is the first author to achieve such an honour. In each case, her translator into English was Siân Reynolds, who was also recognized by the international award.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Fred Vargas” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.