Sissel jo gazan biography

Sissel-Jo Gazan (born 20 December 1973, Aarhus) is a Danish biologist and writer who gained wide recognition in 2008 for her novel Dinosaurens fjer.
Sissel-Jo Gazan is a Danish biologist and writer who gained wide recognition in 2008 for her novel Dinosaurens fjer, translated into English as The Dinosaur Feather.
Sissel-Jo Gazan is a biology graduate from the University of Copenhagen.

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The Publisher Says: How could one man inspire such hatred?

Professor Lars Helland is found at his desk with his tongue lying in his lap. A violent fit has caused him to bite through it in his death throes. A sad but simple end. Until the autopsy results come through.

The true cause of his death - the slow, systematic and terrible destruction of a man - leaves the police at a loss. And when a second member of Helland's department disappears, their attention turns to a show more postgraduate student named Anna. She's a single mother, angry with the world, desperate to finish her degree. Would she really jeopardise everything by killing her supervisor?

As the police investigate the most brutal and calculated case they've ever known, Anna must fi

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S J. Gazan Biography

Danish born S.J. Gazan graduated from the University of Copenhagen with a degree in biology. Her debut work of crime fiction, The Dinosaur Feather, was awarded the Denmark Radio Literature Prize 2008 for Best Novel of the Year and went on to become a national bestseller. The Danish Broadcasting Corporation voted The Dinosaur Feather the Crime Novel of the Decade, and in January 2013, it was awarded the Literature Prize of the Ambassadors of the French-Speaking Countries. It has been sold into more than a dozen countries.

S.J. Gazan holds a masters degree in Biology from Copenhagen University, where she specialized in bird origins. While finishing her master studies Sissel-Jo decided to combine her passions as a biologist and novelist and write a scientific thriller. "I took my own situation as a frustrated single mother who was spending too much time studying bird skeletons in the dark depths of Copenhagen Zoological Museum and too little time with my child. I mixed it with the factual elements from my

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Sissel-Jo Gazan

SISSEL-JO GAZAN (b. 1973) DEBUTED at a very young age and a few years later established herself as an international talent to watch with her science fiction crime novel, The Dinosaur Feather. Up until today, The Dinosaur Feather has been read by more than 250,000 people in Denmark and published in 17 countries. Furthermore, the debut was named “Crime Novel of the Decade” by the Danish Broadcasting Corporation, NPR’s Maureen Corrigan called it her favorite mystery of 2013, and The Wall Street Journal‘s Tom Nolan placed it in his year-end top ten list.

IT WAS FOLLOWED by the sequel The Arc of the Swallow which evokes such literary mystery masterpieces as John Le Carre’s The Constant Gardner and Peter Hoeg’s Smilla’s Sense of Snow, pitting a principled scientist against a profit-motivated conspiracy that leads to the upper reaches of corporations and government. Sissel-Jo Gazan has written eight novels in total and been awarded with the Readers’ Book Prize, DR’s novel prize and The Golden Meat Ax