Ken Follett ( born Ken Follett ; born June 5, 1949 , Cardiff , Wales ) is a Welsh and British writer.
| Ken Follett | |
|---|---|
| Ken follett | |
 | |
| Date of Birth | June 5, 1949 (aged 70) |
| Place of Birth |  Cardiff , Wales |
| Citizenship | Great Britain |
| Occupation | prose writer |
| Years of creativity | since 1974 |
| Direction | novelist |
| Genre | thriller, historical novel |
| Language of Works | |
| Awards | Edgar Allan Poe Prize |
| ken-follett.com | |
Content
Biography
After studying philosophy in the 1970s, he worked as a journalist for several years and began writing novels .
Ken Follett gained worldwide fame after the publication of the novel " Eye of the Needle " ( Eng. Eye of the Needle ). The book has been translated into 30 languages and has a circulation of 12 million copies.
Describing the cathedral in the fictional city of Kingsbridge in the novel The Pillars of the Earth, as well as World Without End, Follett was inspired by the Catholic Cathedral of Santa Maria de Vitoria in Vitoria-Gasteiz (Spain). This led to a large influx of tourists, for which the city government established a monument to the writer near the cathedral.
Bibliography
The books were also published under pseudonyms: Simon Myles , Bernard L. Ross, Bernard Zachary Stone, and Martin Martinsen. This is indicated in the list by the letters SM, BLR, ZS and MM, respectively.
- The Big Needle ( 1974 , SM)
- The Big Black ( 1974 , SM)
- The Big Hit ( 1975 , SM)
- The Shakeout ( 1975 )
- The Bear Raid ( 1976 )
- Amok: King of Legend ( 1976 , BLR)
- The Modigliani Scandal ( 1976 , ZS)
- The Mystery Hideout ( 1976 , MM)
- The Power Twins ( 1976 , MM)
- Paper Money ( 1977 , ZS)
- Capricorn One ( 1978 , BLR)
- Eye of the Needle / Eye of the Needle ( 1978 ) - Edgar Allan Poe Prize, 1979, for best novel (Russian performer. Konstantin Pechkurov, 1992)
- Heist of the Century ( 1978 )
- Triple / ( 1979 )
- The Key to Rebecca / The Key to Rebecca ( 1980 , Russian per. Leonid Khodyreva, 1992; D. Rashchupkina, 2005 [2] )
- The Man from St. Petersburg / The Man from St. Petersburg ( 1982 )
- On Eagles Wings / On Wings of Eagles ( 1983 , Russian per. Alexander Karpov and I. Guliants, 1992)
- Lie Down with Lions ( 1986 ), filmed Lion Clash
- Pillars of the Earth / The Pillars of the Earth ( 1989 , Russian version by B. Tetevin and S. Morozov, 1993)
- Night Over Water ( 1991 , Russian per. Konstantin Pechkurov, 1993; A. A. Feingar, 2006)
- The Dangers of Fortune / A Dangerous Fortune ( 1993 )
- A Place Called Freedom ( 1995 )
- The Third Twin ( The Third Twin ( 1996 , Russian per. Natalia Rein, 2003)
- Hammer of Eden / The Hammer of Eden ( 1998 , Russian performer. Vladimir Goldich and Irina Oganesova, 2004)
- Countdown / Code to Zero ( 2000 , Russian Per. 2002)
- Jackdaws / Jackdaws ( 2001 , Russian trans. 2003)
- A sharp turn / Hornet Flight ( 2002 , Russian per. 2004)
- Whiteout / Whiteout ( 2004 , Russian per. T.Kudryavtseva, 2006)
- World Without End ( 2007 )
- Fall of Giants ( 2010 )
- Winter of the World ( 2012 )
- Edge of Eternity ( 2014 )
- Pillar of Fire / A Column of Fire (2017)
Films
- Director Richard Marquand made the eponymous bestselling film Needle Eye. The premiere in the USA took place on July 24, 1981 .
- The brothers Ridley and Tony Scott , with the support of Tandem Communications , together with Muse Entertainment , shot the eponymous mini-series from the book "Pillars of the Earth". The premiere took place on July 23, 2010 on the Starz channel [3] .
- In 2012, according to the book “World Without End”, the series “World Without End” was filmed.
- In 2017, a video game was released from The Pillars of the Earth [4]
Notes
- ↑ BNF ID : 2011 Open Data Platform .
- ↑ In this translation, the book is called The Key to Rebecca .
- ↑ The Pillars of the Earth Television Event Series | The Official Website
- ↑ The Pillars of the Earth Game - The Interactive Novel .