Zoë Beck

Zoë Beck
Born12 March 1975 (1975-03-12) (age 51)
Lahn-Dill-Kreis, Germany
OccupationsWriter, publisher, translator, dubbing director
Writing career
Notable worksNormale Menschen, Fade to Black, Ein zufriedener Mann. Erzählungen, A Contented Man and Other Stories
Websitezoebeck.blog

Zoë Beck (born 12 March 1975 as Henrike Heiland in Ehringshausen in the Lahn-Dill district) is a German writer, publisher, translator, dialogue book author and dubbing director. She has won multiple awards for her books and translations.

Life

At the age of three she began to play the piano. Numerous performances and multiple awards at competitions followed. After graduating from high school she studied German and English literature in Giessen, Bonn and Durham as a scholarship holder of the German National Academic Foundation. She completed her studies with a master's thesis on the crime writer Elizabeth George. She then worked as an editor and TV producer for the Kirch Group. Since 2004 she has been working as a freelance author and lives in Berlin.

Beck first wrote screenplays, including the Christmas film "In der Weihnachtsbäckerei" (In the Christmas Bakery) with Rolf Zuckowski for ZDF children's television, various episodes of Tabaluga tivi, Nelly Net(t) and the German version of the sitcom Disney's Kurze Pause for the Disney Channel. Since 2006 she has been publishing mainly prose as a writer.

After surviving cancer in 2007 she changed her name to Zoë Beck.

Together with Jan Karsten Beck, she founded the literary publishing house CulturBooks in 2013. The publishing house emerged from the online feuilleton Culturmag.

In addition to her writing, Zoë Beck works as a literary translator and dubbing director for film and television (including Hackerville, Dietland, The Terror, The Mist, Fear the Walking Dead, Orange Is the New Black, Followers). From September 2013 to August 2014, she was the columnist for the SWR2 programme LiteraturEN, a radio column that is awarded to a different contemporary author each year, and subsequently wrote literary reviews for the station.

Zoë Beck acts as their German voice on reading tours of international authors, for example for Denise Mina, Val McDermid, Louise Welsh and Carl Nixon. She is on the board of directors of LitProm, a member of the PEN Centre Germany, co-founder of the feminist writers' network "Herland" and co-initiator of the action alliance #verlagegegenrechts. At the Leipzig Book Fair 2018 and 2019, she organised, among other things, the event series "Die Gedanken sind bunt". Beck has been a member of the jury for the Kurt Tucholsky Prize since 2018.

Awards

Work

Novels (Name: Zoë Beck)

Short Prose (Name: Zoë Beck)

Non-fiction books

Novels (Name: Henrike Heiland)

Prose (Name: Henrike Heiland)

Translations (selected)

References

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  2. ↑ "90 Jahre, 90 Köpfe" (in German). Retrieved 24 August 2017.
  3. ↑ "ZDF Jahrbuch 2007 - Einzelfilme". Archived from the original on 17 January 2023.
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  35. ↑ "KLP 2019 Beste Übersetzung". Archived from the original on 2 April 2019. Retrieved 2 April 2019.
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  37. ↑ "28. Reinickendorfer Kriminacht verlegt" (in German). 23 November 2020.
  38. ↑ "- Deutscher Krimipreis 2020 für Zoë Beck" (in German). Archived from the original on 13 April 2021.
  39. ↑ "Nominierte für die GLAUSER-Preise 2021 stehen fest - SYNDIKAT e.V." Archived from the original on 30 July 2021.
  40. ↑ "Der Krimipreis | Stuttgarter Kriminächte".
  41. ↑ "KLP 2021 Bester Roman".
  42. ↑ "6.10.2021 | Lesung und Gespräch mit unserer diesjährigen Stadtschreiberin Zoë Beck" (in German).[dead link]