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Louise Penny

Nato: July 01, 1958 – Toronto, Ontario, Canada

Louise Penny is a Canadian mystery novelist best known for the Chief Inspector Armand Gamache series, beginning with Still Life. Her literary crime fiction explores community, morality, and grief. A multiple Agatha Award winner and CWA Dagger recipient, she has become an internationally bestselling author whose novels are widely translated.

Biografia e Percorso dell'Autore

Louise Penny was born in Toronto on July 1, 1958, grew up reading Agatha Christie and Dorothy L. Sayers, and knew from childhood that she wanted to write. She studied radio and television arts at Ryerson Polytechnic Institute, graduating in 1979, and then spent roughly eighteen years at the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation as a journalist and radio host. Those professional years ran alongside a severe struggle with alcoholism and despair; getting sober at thirty-five, and later building a life with the physician Michael Whitehead, became the turning points that reshaped both her private life and her eventual work. ((https://www.britannica.com/biography/Louise-Penny))

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A funny thing happened on my way to not writing a book
-Writing Through Grief
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To write… what a harbour it is
-Writing Through Grief
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They’re not so much about death, as life
-Writing Through Grief
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For me, each book of mine begins as a lump in the throat
-Bestselling Mystery Writer Louise Penny Discusses Her New Novel
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I had to be hurt into novel writing
-Bestselling Mystery Writer Louise Penny Discusses Her New Novel
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Three Pines isn’t a physical place, it’s a state of mind
-Interview with Louise Penny
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But the only thing you can guarantee is a sort of emotional safety
-Interview with Louise Penny
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If reading was that powerful, then imagine how powerful writing must be
-Louise Penny on Surviving Childhood Fears with Charlotte’s Web
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I didn’t want fear—the fear that had plagued me most of my life—to steal from me
-Louise Penny on Surviving Childhood Fears with Charlotte’s Web

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Voci della Community

"Louise Penny is one of the greatest crime writers of our times"

Denise Mina

"Louise Penny writes like an angel and plots like the devil"

Alan Bradley

"Mystery author Louise Penny has won the Agatha Award for best mystery novel of the year five times, but she balks at the Christie comparison"

TIME

"No one does atmospheric quite like Louise Penny"

Elly Griffiths

"Louise Penny's writing is intricate, beautiful and compelling"

Peter James

"Louise Penny's mystery novels are beloved far and wide — as told by the four million copies her books have sold around the world"

CBS News

"No one writes evil like Louise Penny"

Ann Cleeves

"Louise Penny is on peak form"

The Times

"Louise Penny's new novel shows once again why she's a crowd favorite"

The Washington Post

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