INGER WOLF

danish version

Biography

The darkness and the shadows of life as inspiration.

Inger Wolf was born in Herning in Denmark in 1971, but spent the first ten years of her childhood in the city of Århus close to the forests and the sea. This beautiful place was later to be the fictitious setting for several murder cases in her novels. Inger's parents divorced when she was nine years old, and she moved with her father, a musician, to a small village in the countryside where she spent the next 18 years.

Inger started writing when she was around ten years old.  When she was 15, she wrote her first book - a novel about a rock band. The book was never published, and more unsuccessful attempts followed before she finally had her first novel Sidespring (On the Side) - a book about divorce and motherhood - published in 2000 by Rosinante. In the meantime she studied English at a business school, and was now supporting herself as a freelance translator.

In 2001 Inger moved back to Århus and her old neighborhood. Now a single mother and occasionally suffering from depressions she returned to the forests and the sea. Long walks in the surrounding nature became the inspiration for her first crime novel Sort Sensommer (Black Indian Summer) which was published by Modtryk in 2006. Sort Sensommer won the 2006 Danish Crime Academy Award as 'Most Exciting Crime Novel Debut', and the rights for the book were sold to Norway, Holland, and Germany. A second crime novel also featuring chief inspector Daniel Trokic, Frost og Aske (Frost and Ashes) will be published in 2008.

Today, Inger lives with her Dutch boyfriend Toine and her 13 year-old daughter Cecilie in an apartment on the outskirts of Århus. The household also include three cats, one dog, and one parrot.