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Born in Frankfurt as Jakob Michelsen (Arjouni was a pseudonym), he had an early literary role model: his father, Hans Günter Michelsen, was..
Jakob Arjouni
German author (1964–2013)
Jakob Bothe (born Jakob Michelsen; 8 October 1964 – 17 January 2013), better known by his pen nameJakob Arjouni, was a German author.
He received the 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder.[1][2]
Life
Jakob Arjouni was born in Frankfurt am Main.
Jakob Arjouni, who proved there could be such a thing as German crime fiction, raced against cancer to finish the fifth installment in his.
His first novel Happy Birthday, Türke! was published in 1985.[3] This was the first in his Kayankaya series of crime novels, featuring private detective Kemal Kayankaya, and set in Frankfurt am Main where Arjouni resided.
The series brought him recognition both in Germany and abroad: the books were translated into 10 different languages. In 1987, he received the Baden-Württembergischen Autorenpreis für das deutschsprachige Jugendtheater for his play Nazim schiebt ab.
In 1992, he received the German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder. He died, aged 48, in Berlin of pancreatic cancer.[3]