About

Born 1973 in Bielefeld, Germany, Nina George is a prize-winning international bestselling novelist (“Das Lavendelzimmer” – “The Little Paris Bookshop”, New York Times Besteller) and freelance journalist since 1992, who has published 28 books (novels, mysteries and non-fiction) as well as over hundred short stories and more than 600 columns.
Nina George has worked as a reporter and columnist for a wide range of publications.
George writes also under three pen-names, e.g. “Jean Bagnol”, a double-andronym for provence-based mystery novels.

In 2011, Nina George established the “JA zum Urheberrecht” (YES on Author’s Rights) initiative. 14 writers’ associations and 27 publishing partners have since joined the Initiative. In August 2014 George supported the Amazon-protest of the AG in Germany, where over 2000 germanspeaking authors – Nobelprizewinner Elfriede Jelinek or Bestsellingauthor Nele Neuhaus and Ferdinand von Schirach – signed an open letter to Jeff Bezos and Amazon, protesting against the banned-book-methods of the giant retailer in the Hachette/Bonnier-dispute. In 2015 George founded the Initiative Fair Book Market, 2016 she founded the Netzwerk Autorenrechte (Network Authorsrights), representing today 15.500 writers and translators of 14 member-associations.

From 2015-2019 George served on the board of German PEN, from 2017-2019 in the board of the German Writers’ Union VS. George sits also on the administrative board of Collecting Society VG Wort and is chair of the working group E-Book.

In June 2019 Nina George was elected as President of the European Writers’ Council.

Nina George is Member of PEN Germany and the PEN International Writers’ Circle, Das Syndikat, the Writers’ Union of Germany (VS), the IACW/AIEP (International Association of Crime Writers) and the Network of Authors of Fantastic Fiction.

She lives in Berlin and the Bretagne/ France.

Featured Work

The Book of Dreams

2019

A warm, wise, and magical exploration of the thresholds between life and death by the bestselling author of The Little Paris Bookshop

Henri Skinner is a hardened ex–war reporter on the run from his past. On his way to see his son, Sam, for the first time in years, Henri is hit by a car. Rushed to a nearby hospital, he floats between dreams: reliving the fairytales of his childhood and the secrets that made him run away in the first place.
After the accident, Sam—a thirteen-year-old synesthete with an IQ of 144—waits by his father’s bedside every day. There he meets Eddie Tomlin, a woman forced to confront her love for Henri after all these years, and twelve-year-old Madelyn Zeidler, a coma patient like Henri and the sole survivor of a traffic accident that killed her family. As these four very different individuals fight—for hope, for patience, for life—they are bound together inextricably, facing the ravages of loss and first love side by side. The Book of Dreams is a tender meditation on memory, liminality, and empathy, asking with grace and gravitas what we will truly find meaningful in our lives once we are gone.

“An empathetic and emotionally stunning novel. Never preachy or maudlin, this deep dive into some of life’s most haunting questions will appeal to fans of Isabel Allende and Mary Simses.” —Booklist

“Captivating . . . This exploration of unfinished relationships has a haunting, evocative quality and is a perfect conversation-starting selection for book groups.” —Publishers Weekly

Other Works

  • The Little French Bistro

    2017

  • The Little Paris Bookshop

    2015

Awards and Recognition

  • 2020: Ehrenglauser Award for the lifetime achievement on authors rights (GER) 2017: The Golden Auguste for the engagement for diversity and authors rights (GER) 2012: Glauser Award for the best mystery short story of the year (GER) 2011: Delia Award for the best romance novel of the year. (GER)