Ingrid Noll (Ingrid Noll), real name Ingrid Gullatz (Ingrid Gullatz), Ingrid Noll is her birth name, was born on September 29, 1935 in Shanghai, China, is a contemporary One of the most successful authors of bestselling novels in the German language.Her works have been translated into 28 languages ​​so far. Ingrid Knoll's father is a doctor, and she spent her childhood in Shanghai, Nanjing, Guilin, Chongqing and other places. In 1949, he returned to China and settled down.After graduating from high school, he studied German language and literature and art history at the University of Bonn, and then interrupted his studies. In 1959, he married doctor Peter Goularz, with whom he had three children.Like most housewives, she raised children, took care of the housework, and helped her husband's clinic. In this way, she took care of her husband and children for thirty years, and only engaged in amateur creation in the few remaining hours.

At the age of 55, after her children grew up and left home to live independently, she had enough leisure time to engage in her favorite literary creation. Her first novel, published in 1991, made her an overnight success and stayed on the bestseller list for 35 weeks. The second novel was published in 1993, which also received rave reviews, and won the German "Glauser German Annual Best Detective Novel Award" the following year.The full name of the Glause Prize is the Friedrich Glause Award, named after the famous Swiss detective novelist Friedrich Glause. Every year, the works of more than 400 members of the German Detective Writers Association from all German-speaking countries are selected. One of the Grauzer Detective Fiction Prizes will be selected, and each winner will receive a prize of 5,000 euros.Knoll's third novel, The Female Pharmacist, was published in 1994 and once occupied the bestseller list for 77 weeks.Following , and "The Female Apothecary", Knoll has published "The Wind in the Night" (1996), "The Rose of Rashomon" (1998), "The Happy Widow" (2001), "Rogue Brothers" (2003). ), "Like a Lady" (2006) and "A Child of Unknown Origin" (2008), and several collections of short stories, all of which have become bestsellers, among which "The Female Pharmacist", , "The Wind in the Night" was made into a movie and a TV series. Katja Riemann (Katja Riemann), who played the leading role in "The Female Pharmacist", won the German Film Award for Best Actress in 1998. Fritzi Haberlandt (Fritzi Haberlandt) won the Bavarian Film Award for Best Female Newcomer in 2001 for her leading role in Bitter.Her novels have been translated into 28 languages ​​including English, French, Japanese, Russian, Spanish, and Italian, and their influence spreads all over the world.In recognition of Ingrid Knoll's outstanding achievements in novel creation over the past ten years, Knoll won the Grauzer Honorary Award in 2005 - "Personal Outstanding Contribution Award". She is known as the "Queen of Detectives" in Germany. He is "the most accomplished German-language writer of our time".

In the novels that Ingrid Knoll has created so far, she never follows the routine of traditional novels, and narrates the stories of daily life in a clear but seemingly uncomplicated style, revealing through the surface of the well-behaved small townspeople That lurking madness. The Salzburger Zeitung therefore dubbed Ingrid Knoll "the Patricia Highsmith of Germany".Patricia Highsmith (Patricia Highsmith, 1921-1995), the number one writer and master of psychological crime novels in the United States, has numerous followers at home and abroad.Her works are very unique, good at describing the characters' thinking, psychological state, plot layout, step by step, and the promotion of justice, the definition of good and evil, and the punishment of crimes are not bounded by general moral standards.The most famous works are the "Tom Ripley" series.And in Ingrid Knoll's novels, although women often get rid of men through orchestrated murder, the author herself does not want to be understood as the enemy of men.She said: "I like men, and finally I have a man myself." The German "Der Spiegel" said that "Noel belongs to the best novelists in Germany", and the "Frankfurt Allgemeine Zeitung" commented that Ingrid Noel's novels start with Known for its vivid characterizations, environment descriptions and a lot of black humor, those seemingly normal women become criminals because they can't get happiness in life.Diogenes Publishing House in Zurich, Switzerland, which publishes Ingrid Knoll's works, is the largest pure literature publishing house in Europe. The Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung said that the publishing house "brings together the best detective novel writers". In September 2007, the German GRIN Publishing House published Eva Sammel's monograph "Queen Detective: Agatha Christie vs. Ingrid Knoll——Analysis and Comparison of Sum".Agatha Christie (Agatha Christie, 1890-1976), known as the "Queen of Detectives", by comparing the important works of Christie and Noel, the author clearly shows that although the two "Queens of Detectives" have great influence in the creation of detective novels There are differences in terms of literature, but their works are similar in purpose, and fully demonstrate the status and influence of Ingrid Knoll in the creation of contemporary crime novels.Ingrid Knoll's novels have deservedly become classics.