Akif Pirinçci is a German writer of Turkish origin who is best known internationally for his novel Felidae

Felidae (novel)

Felidae is a 1989 novel by German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat named Francis who investigates the murders of several cats in a big city in Germany...

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Biography

Pirinçci was born on the 20th October 1959 in Istanbul

Istanbul

Istanbul , historically known as Byzantium and Constantinople , is the largest city of Turkey. Istanbul metropolitan province had 13.26 million people living in it as of December, 2010, which is 18% of Turkey's population and the 3rd largest metropolitan area in Europe after London and...

, Turkey, but emigrated to Germany together with his parents in 1969. He began to write fiction at a young age, and published his first novel Tränen sind immer das Ende (literally meaning "tears always are the end") in 1980, at the age of 21. His next literary work, published in 1989, was the novel Felidae

Felidae (novel)

Felidae is a 1989 novel by German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat named Francis who investigates the murders of several cats in a big city in Germany...

, a work of crime fiction with cats as the main protagonists. The novel has been translated into 17 languages and became an international bestseller.
Due to the enormous success of the novel, Pirinçci expanded his concept of "cat crime fiction

Crime fiction

Crime fiction is the literary genre that fictionalizes crimes, their detection, criminals and their motives. It is usually distinguished from mainstream fiction and other genres such as science fiction or historical fiction, but boundaries can be, and indeed are, blurred...

" and published several sequels to Felidae, out of which only one, namely Felidae II, has been translated into English. An animated movie based on Felidae, the script of which had been co-written by Pirinçci, has been produced in Germany

Germany

Germany , officially the Federal Republic of Germany , is a federal parliamentary republic in Europe. The country consists of 16 states while the capital and largest city is Berlin. Germany covers an area of 357,021 km2 and has a largely temperate seasonal climate...

 in 1994, and was also dubbed in English.
Pirinçci has published several other novels which were not set in the fictional reality of the Felidae series - however, none of those works have reached such a high degree of popularity. Lately, however, he had a big success with his fantastic thriller "The Door", which was adapted for the screen in Germany, with Mads Mikkelsen ("Casino Royal") in the leading role, and which will be remade by Hollywood.

Pirinçci currently lives in Bonn

Bonn

Bonn is the 19th largest city in Germany. Located in the Cologne/Bonn Region, about 25 kilometres south of Cologne on the river Rhine in the State of North Rhine-Westphalia, it was the capital of West Germany from 1949 to 1990 and the official seat of government of united Germany from 1990 to 1999....

, the former capital of the Federal Republic of Germany.

List of literary works

• Tränen sind immer das Ende (1980)
• Felidae
  Felidae (novel)
  Felidae is a 1989 novel by German-Turkish writer Akif Pirinçci. The main character is a cat named Francis who investigates the murders of several cats in a big city in Germany...
  
  (German: Felidae) (1989)
• Der Rumpf (literally meaning "the torso") (1992)
• Felidae II aka Felidae on the Road (German: Francis. Felidae II) (1993)
• Felidae animated movie (script) (1994)
• Yin (1997)
• Cave Canem. Felidae III (1999)
• Die Damalstür (literally meaning "the door to back then" (2001)
• Das Duell. Felidae IV ("the duel") (2002)
• Salve Roma! Felidae V (2004)
• Der letzte Weltuntergang: Krimi-Erzählungen ("The Final Apocalypse") (2007)
• Schandtat Felidae VI (2007)
• Felipolis Felidae VII (2010)
• Felidae - Special U.S. Edition - Kindle Edition (2011)
• Felidae on the Road - Special U.S. Edition - Kindle Edition (2011)