Fred Vargas
1957
Fred Vargas is an alternative name given to Frédérique Audoin-Rouzeau, who is a writer, archaeologist and the French historian. Her father was a surrealist writer and had the name Philippe Audoin. According to Vargas, her father was a brilliant man and apart from science, he used to know about everything. As a child she was not allowed to watch television, but had many books to read. The Crime Writers Association has given her three International Dagger Awards for the crime fiction policies written by her. It was given to her in the year 2006, 2008 and 2009 for her three successive novels. The awards are a big honor and she became the first author to achieve it. Siân Reynolds, who is also an international award winner translated all the three novels into English. Audoin-Rouzeau was born in Paris on June 7, 1957 and she uses Fred Vargas as a pen name to write her novels. As an archaeologist, she joined and worked at CNRS (French National Centre for Scientific Research) in the year 1988. She later worked as a eukaryotic archaeologist at the Institut Pasteur. She has done many projects in her life and some of them includes the epidemiology of bubonic plague and the Black Death.