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Cora Stephan (born 7 April 1951 in Strang Bad Rothenfelde, West Germany) is a German-speaking writer and essayist. As an author of
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she is known under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet. Stephan grew up in
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(Germany). Having studied at the
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and
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she graduated as a teacher in 1973 and took her PhD in 1976 with a thesis on the History of German Social-Democracy in the 19th Century. From 1976 to 1984 she taught at the
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in
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(Germany). From 1985 to 1987 she worked as a journalist in the Bonn office of the German news magazine ''
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''. Today Cora Stephan lives in Mücke near Frankfurt (Germany) and Laurac-en-Vivarais (France). Under the pseudonym Anne Chaplet she was awarded the '' Deutscher Krimi Preis'' twice (in 2001 and 2004) and received ''Radio Bremen Krimipreis'' in 2003.


Books


Essays by Cora Stephan

* 1992 ''Wir Kollaborateure'' * 1993 ''Der Betroffenheitskult'' * 1995 ''Neue deutsche Etikette'' * 1998 ''Das Handwerk des Krieges''


Novels by Anne Chaplet

* 1998 ''Caruso singt nicht mehr'' * 1999 ''Wasser zu Wein'' * 2000 ''Nichts als die Wahrheit'' * 2002 ''Die Fotografin'' * 2003 ''Schneesterben'' * 2004 ''Russisch Blut'' * 2006 ''Sauberer Abgang'' * 2007 ''Doppelte Schuld'' * 2008 ''Schrei nach Stille''


External links


Websites in German


Cora Stephan
contains articles by Cora Stephan, a short autobiography and a bibliography
Anne Chaplet
contains, amongst other useful information, a detailed bibliography and numerous photos {{DEFAULTSORT:Stephan, Cora German crime writers German crime fiction writers Living people 1951 births Writers from Osnabrück Academic staff of Goethe University Frankfurt Der Spiegel people Hessischer Rundfunk people University of Hamburg alumni Goethe University Frankfurt alumni