With 30 bestsellers in over 40 years, Ken Follett wrote to one of the most successful authors in the world. Now the literature-Mogul 70. And probably the next best-seller is already in the drawer.
With 13 or 14 he had read the whole Bible through, and later books instead of watching television or movies are to be consumed, said Ken Follett in a recent Interview. That he was Roman author reasons thus in his Childhood in the strict religious parents house. He was born in 1949 in Cardiff, Wales into. So may be that the later star author balancing his narrative and dramaturgical skill also from the Bible, drew. Eventually, anyway, he had the bow out: “a good idea for A popular novel creates between 50 and 100 dramatic scenes,” he told the German press Agency in an Interview. And Follett had good ideas. After his study of philosophy, with which he was emancipated from Religion, has made his living Follett first as a music journalist, is responsible for Rock. Rather unexpectedly, his first novel, attempts to the lucrative in addition to earnings.
Breakthrough with “The needle”
In 1978, turned in his spy Thriller “The needle” international. The book has sold tens of millions of Times and was made into a film in 1981, prominent with Donald Sutherland. The Foundation for the best selling forge Follett was laid out in the following 40 years, 30 more novels followed. First of all, he established himself more as a Thriller writer, until 1989, in the Genre of waving, which is today inextricably linked with his name: the history of the novel.
Donald Sutherland in 1981, in the Ken-Follett-a film adaptation of “The needle”
“The pillars of the earth” from 1989 is so epic how the is not immodest title suggests. Follett portrays the construction of a Cathedral in England in the middle ages. Cathedrals is an Obsession Folletts, as he expressed last again to stay. The fear of Epochal seems to be Follett already foreign. In various novels he took from the 1980s, the Cold war in the view.
And again Donald Sutherland Follett in Ken-adaptation: working Here as Bartholomew, at the filming of the mammoth film adaptation of “the pillars of The earth”.
The high middle ages, Normandy Invasion, the East-West conflict: no Matter what historical Wallpaper, his novels are always thoroughly researched and accurately described. The facts are not so critical, you could read everywhere. he said in 2014 in an Interview with DW. It was important to fill it with stories. Here, he writes about universal themes, the counting everywhere in the world. And the audience will love it, apparently.
Owner of the company, and “champagne socialist”
In not typing anything against the jaguars, and good wine. Ken Follett, here in 2017 during an interview
So much So that more than a dozen employees in the Ken Office Follett are busy, to license the rights to his works in the world, and bonuses to collect. According to media reports, one works there, just to the Edition and marketing of the history of the “pillars of the earth”, to appear in the fall of 2020. The author remains in time, his interests. About cars of the brand Jaguar, or, as the biography expresses on his website, all of the great dining and Drinking, from which the world was full. As a “champagne socialist,” was Follett referred to on various occasions, had been engaged for a long time for the Labour Party in the Era of Tony Blair. The Label can no longer take care of him now.