Jenny-Mai Nuyen

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Jenny-Mai Nuyen, born Jenny-Mai Nguyen on 14 March 1988 in Munich, is a German fantasy writer. She is the daughter of a Vietnamese computer scientist and a German mother and grew up in Munich. She publishes as Nuyen on her publisher's advice, for easier pronunciation. She wrote her first stories at age five, her first screenplay at ten and her first novel at thirteen. Her debut, Nijura – Das Erbe der Elfenkrone (2007), became a bestseller. Further titles include Feenlicht (2009), Noir (2012), Heartware (2017), Die Töchter von Ilian (2019) and Das Zeitalter der Drachen (2021). She dropped out of a film studies programme at New York University, moved to Berlin in 2009 and sometimes lives in Munich.

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Books

• Feenlicht (2009) · Die Sturmjäger von Aradon Core Canon
• Magierlicht (2010) · Die Sturmjäger von Aradon Core Canon

Aggregate across all universes

• Total Core Canon books across all universes: 2 books
• Award recognitions across all universes: 0 (None recorded)

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