Christine Adamo
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Christine Adamo is a French writer
who comes from the world of the sciences. Specialized in environmental information, she writes thrillers which cross science, history and suspense.
In 2006, Noir austral
was shortlisted for several awards, including the Prix Michel Lebrun.
French and foreign publishers of Adamo's books:
Writer
A writer is a person who produces literature, such as novels, short stories, plays, screenplays, poetry, or other literary art. Skilled writers are able to use language to portray ideas and images....
who comes from the world of the sciences. Specialized in environmental information, she writes thrillers which cross science, history and suspense.
Novels
- Requiem pour un poisson (Requiem for a fish) (Liana Levi and Folio policier - Gallimard (France), 2005, De Geus (Netherland), Effemme(Italy), Alpha Books (China)), tells how a Parisian girl, Marie, get caught into the deadly discovery of an enigmatic fossilFossilFossils are the preserved remains or traces of animals , plants, and other organisms from the remote past...
fish: the cœlacanth, - Noir australNoir australNoir Austral is a French-language 2006 novel by French author Christine Adamo.-Plot:...
(Southern black) (Liana Levi and Folio policier - Gallimard (France) (2006), De Geus (Netherland), Touring Editore (Italia)), develops two plots which come together in the end: the odyssey of an Aboriginal Australian tribe from 70,000 BCE to the present and the story of a young Australian woman, Liz, who moves to ProvenceProvenceProvence ; Provençal: Provença in classical norm or Prouvènço in Mistralian norm) is a region of south eastern France on the Mediterranean adjacent to Italy. It is part of the administrative région of Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur...
in search of her French roots. - Web mortemWeb mortemWeb Mortem is a 2009 novel by the French author Christine Adamo.-Plot:St Andrews in Scotland is the scene of several horrible murders. All the victims are people from the Middle East and without any legal papers....
(Albin Michel (France), 2009), precipitates Hammond Mac Leod, a young and distinguished dean of the University of St AndrewsSt AndrewsSt Andrews is a university town and former royal burgh on the east coast of Fife in Scotland. The town is named after Saint Andrew the Apostle.St Andrews has a population of 16,680, making this the fifth largest settlement in Fife....
, in ScotlandScotlandScotland is a country that is part of the United Kingdom. Occupying the northern third of the island of Great Britain, it shares a border with England to the south and is bounded by the North Sea to the east, the Atlantic Ocean to the north and west, and the North Channel and Irish Sea to the...
, into an atrocious online gameOnline gameAn online game is a game played over some form of computer network. This almost always means the Internet or equivalent technology, but games have always used whatever technology was current: modems before the Internet, and hard wired terminals before modems...
strangly linked to forgotten languages of ancient MesopotamiaMesopotamiaMesopotamia is a toponym for the area of the Tigris–Euphrates river system, largely corresponding to modern-day Iraq, northeastern Syria, southeastern Turkey and southwestern Iran.Widely considered to be the cradle of civilization, Bronze Age Mesopotamia included Sumer and the...
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Award nominations
In 2005, Requiem pour un poisson was shortlisted for several awards, including the Prix du polar Européen, the Prix Carrefour and the Prix SNCF.In 2006, Noir austral
Noir austral
Noir Austral is a French-language 2006 novel by French author Christine Adamo.-Plot:...
was shortlisted for several awards, including the Prix Michel Lebrun.
External links
Some reviews of Adamo's books :- http://www.parismatch.com/Culture-Match/Livres/Actu/Des-livres-pour-l-ete-108815/
- http://www.lefigaro.fr/lefigaromagazine/2009/07/04/01006-20090704ARTFIG00107—les-huit-grandes-enquetes-a-suivre-cet-ete-.php
- http://www.ouest-France.fr/actu/loisirsDet_-Polar-_3723-1010226_actu.Htm
- http://www.estrepublicain.fr/A%20la%20une/roman/art_1143371.php
- http://tf1.lci.fr/infos/sciences/0,,3180135,00-virus-frontieres-philo-dans-sous-bois-.html
- http://www.evene.fr/tout/christine-adamo
French and foreign publishers of Adamo's books:
- http://www.lianalevi.fr/auteurs/adamo.htm
- http://www.albin-michel.fr/fiche.php?EAN=9782226190956
- http://www.folio-lesite.fr/foliopolicier/themes/heroines.jsp
- http://www.degeus.nl/author/489.html
- http://www.effemme-edizioni.it/new/narrativa/scheda.php?id=12&id_categoria=3&label=Abisso
- http://www.touringclub.com/ITA/viaggiatori/guidecartelibri/titolo.aspx?IDEditoria=1505