1. Fred Vargas is the first author to achieve such an honour.
10 Facts About Fred Vargas
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Fred Vargas later joined the Institut Pasteur, as a eukaryotic archaeologist.
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Fred Vargas has undertaken a project on the epidemiology of the Black Death and bubonic plague, the result of which was a work considered definitive in the research area: Les chemins de la peste.
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Fred Vargas found writing was a way to combine her interests and relax from her job as an academic.
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Fred Vargas's novels are set in Paris and feature the adventures of Chief Inspector Adamsberg and his team.
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Fred Vargas won the award in 2008 with Wash This Blood Clean From My Hand.
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Fred Vargas was the first author to be shortlisted for three successive novels.
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In 2009 Fred Vargas was again awarded the International Dagger, becoming the first author to receive it for three successive novels, in tandem with the translator, in each case Sian Reynolds.
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In 2018 Fred Vargas won the Princess of Asturias Prize for letters.
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Fred Vargas took part in the defence of Cesare Battisti, an Italian former left-wing urban guerrilla turned writer sought by Italian and French justice since 2004, who was found guilty in absentia of involvement in four assassinations committed in the 1970s, during the "Years of Lead".