Jakob Arjouni
- January 9, 2024
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Jakob Arjouni Biography
| Name | Jakob Arjouni |
| Birthday | Oct 8 |
| Birth Year | 1964 |
| Place Of Birth | Frankfurt |
| Home Town | Hesse |
| Birth Country | Germany |
| Birth Sign | Libra |
Jakob Arjouni is one of the most popular and richest Author who was born on October 8, 1964 in Frankfurt, Hesse, Germany.
Jakob Arjouni was born in Frankfurt am Main. He ended his university studies and published his first novel Happy Birthday, Türke! (1985) at the age of 20. 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 October 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, after a long fight against pancreatic cancer.
In one of his last novels, Der heilige Eddy (2009), Arjouni departed from his previously serious themes and wrote a lightweight contemporary picaresque. Peter Henning, a critic from the German newspaper Die Zeit, commented that it is a “German screwball prose with 246 floating slightly staged pages”. His thriller novel Cherryman jagt Mr. White (2011) has an 18-year-old protagonist in rural Brandenburg who has to face brutal violence by young Nazis of his own village. To overcome his subdued feelings, he turns them into the cartoon adventures of hero “Cherryman” and gangster “Mr. White”.
Jakob Arjouni Net Worth
| Net Worth | $5 Million |
| Source Of Income | Author |
| House | Living in own house. |
Jakob Arjouni is one of the richest Author from Germany. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Jakob Arjouni 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)
Jakob Bothe (born Jakob Michelsen; 8 October 1964 – 17 January 2013), better known by his pen name Jakob Arjouni, was a German author. He received the 1992 German Crime Fiction Prize for One Man, One Murder.
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James Ranked on the list of most popular Author. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in Germany. Jakob Arjouni celebrates birthday on October 8 of every year.