Gisa Klönne is one of Germany’s most successful crime writers. Her novels featuring the detectives Judith Krieger and Manni Korzilius are published in German by Ullstein Verlag. They have been highly praised by the press and translated into several European languages. Her third novel, NIGHT WITHOUT SHADOWS, received the Friedrich Glauser Crime Writing Award for best novel of 2009. This award is the most important prize for crime literature in the German-speaking countries, with the largest prize purse. Gisa Klönne was previously nominated for a Friedrich Glauser Award for her debut novel SILENT IS THE FOREST and for one of her short stories.
Gisa Klönne was born in Stuttgart in 1964. She studied German literature and political science in Darmstadt and at the University of Surrey (Guildford, GB), followed by an MA in English and German literature, theatre, film and television studies at the University of Cologne. She then spent several years as a magazine editor, including for the feminist women’s magazine Emma and as editor-in-chief of the environmental magazine BUNDmagazin. She also reported for newspapers and magazines as a freelance journalist and worked as a lecturer in creative writing. Apart from her novels, Gisa Könne has also published short stories with various publishers since 1999, and is the editor of two crime anthologies. Her fifth crime novel, NOTHING BUT DELIVERANCE, was published in Germany in october 2011. Translation rights have already been sold to Spain and Danmark.
Gisa Klönne is married and lives in Cologne. She is active in various authors’ networks and was the press spokeswoman of the German chapter of Sisters in Crime for two years. From 2006 till 2008 she was on the executive board of DAS SYNDIKAT, a network of around 500 German-language crime writers.
