Jörg Fauser was the enfant terrible of the German literary scene. Born in the Taunus town of Bad Schwalbach in 1944, he worked a number of different jobs (temporary worker, airport worker, night guard, journalist, author and rock songwriter). The night after his forty-third birthday, he died tragically and under mysterious circumstances when walking on the A94 highway between Feldkirchen and Riehm near Munich, where he was hit by a truck. It was only after his death that he became an iconic figure. In 1988, Das Syndikat, a group of German crime writers, awarded him the prestigious Ehrenglauser prize for crime fiction, named after the Swiss author Friedrich Glauser.

Jörg Fauser

Moraldo, Sandro
2019

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Jörg Fauser was the enfant terrible of the German literary scene. Born in the Taunus town of Bad Schwalbach in 1944, he worked a number of different jobs (temporary worker, airport worker, night guard, journalist, author and rock songwriter). The night after his forty-third birthday, he died tragically and under mysterious circumstances when walking on the A94 highway between Feldkirchen and Riehm near Munich, where he was hit by a truck. It was only after his death that he became an iconic figure. In 1988, Das Syndikat, a group of German crime writers, awarded him the prestigious Ehrenglauser prize for crime fiction, named after the Swiss author Friedrich Glauser.
2019
Contemporary German Crime Fiction: A Companion
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Moraldo, Sandro M.
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