Delphine Cingal

53, Female

Melun

France

Profile Information:

Hometown:
Melun (77000, France)
About Me:
Senior Lecturer at a Paris (France) University.
Chief editor of Zulma Classics (classics published in English, with prefaces by scholars.) Zulma is a French publisher.
http://www.zulma.fr/
I wrote the preface to The Hound of the Baskervilles
http://www.zulma.fr/domaine-zulma-classics-3.html


Scholar working on detective fiction.

I love travelling and taking pictures.

URL for my blog (in French) http://delphinecingal.blogspot.com/
Website:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/delphinecingal/
Books And Authors I Like:
John Harvey
Anne Perry
Fidelis Morgan
P.D. James
Donna Leon
Henning Mankell
Sue Grafton
Conan Doyle
Agatha Christie
Ellery Queen
Carol Nelson Douglas
Sparkle Hayter
Sharan Newman
Jeremiah Healy
Ian Rankin
Lindsey Davis
French writers: Sébastien Japrisot, Manchette, Jean-Hugues Oppel, Dominique Manotti, Fred Vargas, Hugues Pagan, Hubert de Maximy, Michel Steiner, Thierry Gatinet, etc.)
Italian: Cesare Battisti
Yes, and I discovered Newton Love :-)))
I also wrote the preface to the French edition of Walter Satterthwait's Miss Lizzie and translated a short story by P.D. James ("The Murder of Santa Claus")
Movies And TV Shows I Like:
Movies: Fargo, films by Hitchcock
Diagnosis Murder
Murder She Wrote
Ellery Queen
Veronica Mars
Hercule Poirot (with David Suchet)
Miss Marple (with Geraldine McEwan and with Joan Hickson)
NY Police District
CSI
Perry Mason
etc.

Comment Wall:

  • Delphine Cingal

    What does "Jusqu'ici, le démuni de I a noté tous les agents." mean? LOL
  • Pari Noskin Taichert

    Bienvenue a Crimespace.

    Je viens de Nouveau Mexique, mais j'ai vecu en France pendant une annee quand j'avais 15 ans. Donc mon francais n'est pas magnifique. Mais, je parle un 'tit peu.

    Je suis une ecrivaine publiee par La Presse de l'Universite de Nouveau Mexique.

    Et pardonnez-moi, mais je ne sais pas comment trouver les accents avec le Crimespace.
  • Delphine Cingal

    Votre français est très bon. Je tente les accents avec mon clavier français, j'espère qu'ils passeront.
  • Delphine Cingal

    yep! do!!!
  • Newt Love


    Quatre-vingt-quinze pour cent
    or (badly translated into English) 1/4 of a pint of quince wine for a penny...
    Is now up as the blog on my page of CrimeSpace or on my homepage.
  • Morgan Mandel

    Hi Delphine,
    You have a lot of credentials for someone so young.
    Good going, girl.
    PS. Sorry I can't add to all the French talk here.
    Morgan
  • Delphine Cingal

    Thnaks a lot. I am blushing
  • RJ

    France..wow..the closest I've been to France was sitting at a desk in my High School French class. :-) I rem. a lil' bit - but my spelling leaves a lot to be desired. (& probably changes the meaning of what i was trying to say!) but here goes -Merci pour etres un ami! (i hope i said thanks for being a friend!)I'm sorry about your separation, I wish you the best!
  • Pari Noskin Taichert

    Le Pen was definitely the one I was thinking of. Quel horreur!
  • Delphine Cingal

    Just done it. Thanks for the idea.
  • Brian Kavanagh

    Hello Delphine, good to meet with you. Exciting time in France this week, eh?
    Cheers,
    Brian
  • Delphine Cingal

    Yep, just went to vote. Results at 8 p.m. (7 p.m. GMT)
  • Delphine Cingal

    Hi everybody. Read the post I just left on my blog (if you can read French, you should read French Tabloids)
    Thanks for all the chatters.
  • Barbara Fister

    Bonjour, Delphine. J'aime aussi le film Fargo, et j'habit Minnesota, donc c'est presque mon voisinage. J'ai obliee tout mon francais, milles pardons, mais bienvenue.
  • Delphine Cingal

    Pour quelqu'un qui a tout oublié, vous parlez remarquablement bien français. :-)))
  • Newt Love

    Delphine wrote:
    > Thanks for introducing me to crimespace.
    > Wonderful place.

    I thought you would love it. It gives you access to current writers of English Language Crime Fiction -- your research specialty. Perhaps some of them would be interested in reading some of your recent papers. I know I enjoyed reading them!
  • Delphine Cingal

    I can send them to anyone who might be interested. One was published in Clues (Bowling Green University Press)
  • CT

    Thank you so much for your invitation Delphine, I am delighted to accept it.
  • Newt Love

    Delphine,
    Alexandria and I would love to meet you and François (tbd) when we visit Paris in Septembre. There are so many topics to discuss!
  • Delphine Cingal

    No problem!
  • sparkle hayter

    My thoughts and the equivalent of prayers are with you this weekend. You know who I'm pulling for. :)
  • sparkle hayter

    Am very sad. How are you?
  • Delphine Cingal

    Very sad as well. More on http://delphinecingal.blogspot.com/
  • Newt Love

    Achh! Politicians! Shakespeare's list should have had two entries... "...first we kill the lawyers and the politicians.

    Great news: HTSS is being considered for stocking in a large county library system in Florida! That will be my first bulk sale. Not bad for two months out from a new author at a new publisher! I may have to trade in my unknown status for something more popular.
  • Cara Black

    Bonjour Delphine,

    so sorry to miss you in Paris
  • sue neale

    Hi

    You have an impressive list of writers you like. I like so many and they are so varied that I gave up listing them, and there are always new ones. I too am interested in crime fiction in a academic way. I wrote my research MA (maitrise) on the 'missing' detective in contemporary French crime fiction. As examples I used Daeninck's Cadin and Vargas's Adamsberg. Very torn as to whether to undertake a PhD on Vargas, but in the meantime am giving papers on various aspects of her work while I consider it. Also writing a chapter for a reference book on crime fiction translated into English. Very broad scope though the French feature quite significantly and my interest in Pennac and Vargas will be well used.
    For my paid work I am a picture researcher working mainly for academics in Oxford as I live near there. My working life has been spent working in publishing from children's books, language textbooks etc - all mainly with the image content but I have also edited and designed them. And just sometimes I think I would like to write something...
  • Delphine Cingal

    After the exams, I am finally finding time to read more. I am now on Goodreads where I am having a lot of fun exchanging ideas of things to read.
    My latest discoveries are On Chesyl Beach by Ian McEwan and a super great detective novel, The Athenian Murders by José Carlos Somoza.

    Checkout my reading list on Goodreads - where you can see what your friends are reading.

    http://www.goodreads.com/friend/i?i=LTM2MDY4MTI0MDk6MzE2%0A

    I hope you'll join me here so we can talk books.
  • James K. Bashkin

    Delphine, Thanks for stopping by my website and offering the feedback. Please give my regards to Cara, and to Paris. I look forward to learning about some great books by following your posts and reading lists. My wife, who spent a year in Paris, can help me with your French blog. Merci' Jim
    http://nearlynothingbutnovels.blogspot.com/
  • Karen from AustCrime

    Being a long-term huge fan of Fred Vargas I was really pleased to discover a couple of books by Sébastien Japrisot in a second hand shop not far from here (of all things)! I'm really looking forward to them - they sound like great fun, so I was extremely pleased to find you mention them in your list of favourites as we coincide on so many other authors.
  • Roger Newbury

    Hi Delphine, thanks for the invite! I'm not sure, but I think I might have at least one of John Harvey's books, but I won't be able to check until I have moved home. Rest assurred I shall definitely check him out though!
  • Cara Black

    Delphine, I'd love to hear about Francis Zamponi's books...wish I'd known about him when I did research on Corsica...
  • Donna Moore

    Hi Delphine - thanks for the invite. Nice list of favourites! Lovely to see Fidelis Morgan on there, I love her books.