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Fred Vargas
Birth at
7 June 1957
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Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of French historian, archaeologist and writer Frederic Auduane-Rusot. She was born into a family of scientists on June 7, 1957 in Paris. She was educated as a historian and archaeologist, after which she began working at the French National Center for Scientific Research in 1988. She later worked as an archaeologist at the Pasteur Institute on a project on the epidemiology of bubonic plague. The results of this work were highly appreciated in scientific circles. Fred
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Fred Vargas is the pseudonym of French historian, archaeologist and writer Frederic Auduane-Rusot. She was born into a family of scientists on June 7, 1957 in Paris. She was educated as a historian and archaeologist, after which she began working at the French National Center for Scientific Research in 1988. She later worked as an archaeologist at the Pasteur Institute on a project on the epidemiology of bubonic plague. The results of this work were highly appreciated in scientific circles.
Fred is a diminutive on her behalf, and Vargas is the surname of Ava Gardner’s character in the film Barefoot Countess. Her twin sister Joelle took the pseudonym Joe Vargas.
Fred mostly writes police thrillers. She found a way to combine her hobbies and knowledge to take a break from her scientific career. The setting in her novels is Paris. Her book, The Inside Out Man, about the adventures of Inspector Adamsberg and his team, was nominated for the Association of British Detective Writers Award for Best Detective Novel of 2005.
In 2006, her novel The Three Evangelists won the first Duncan Lawrie International Dagger Award. The same award was given to Neptune’s Games in 2007 and The Man Drawing Blue Circles in 2009.
The heroes of her novel series The Three Evangelists are young historians Mark, Lucien and Matthias. Scientific activity does not bring them the desired income, so they agree to literally any job: do laundry, clean apartments and, of course, solve crimes, as they can not leave people in trouble, especially women. In this difficult case, friends are helped by a former employee of the Ministry of Internal Affairs Louis Kelveler.
But the pinnacle of writing talent can be called Vargas created the image of Commissioner Adamsberg. He has a surprisingly soft temper and is endowed with some supernatural abilities.