Elizabeth Haran was born in 1954 in Bulawayo

Bulawayo

Bulawayo is the second largest city in Zimbabwe after the capital Harare, with an estimated population in 2010 of 2,000,000. It is located in Matabeleland, 439 km southwest of Harare, and is now treated as a separate provincial area from Matabeleland...

, Zimbabwe

Zimbabwe

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 and migrated to Australia as a child. She has written twelve novels set in Australia

Australia

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 and is currently working on the thirteenth. In the Valley of the Flaming Sun, published in 2007, spent eleven weeks on the German magazine "Der Spiegel" best seller

Best Seller

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 list. Haran‘s novels are all adventure/love stories set in Australia in the 19th and 20th century. Her books have been published in six countries (Germany

Germany

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, Russia

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, Croatia

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, Czech Republic

Czech Republic

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, Slovakia

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 and Latvia

Latvia

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) and have sold more than 1.5 million million copies in Germany.

Life

Haran began writing in her thirties and produces a book every year. She travels to the settings of her books to get a feel for the area and to do research. Australia is such a big and diverse country so Elizabeth feels she will never run out of ideas or settings that will capture the inmagination of her readers. Elizabeth lives in Adelaide

Adelaide

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, South Australia

South Australia

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 with her family.

Works

So far, Elizabeth Haran has published eleven novels with the twelfth due for release in 2012:

• A Woman For All Seasons
  A Woman For All Seasons
  A Woman For All Seasons is a novel written by Australian authoress Elizabeth Haran and published in 2001 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.-Synopsis:...
  
  , 2001
• The Heart of a Sunburned Land
  The Heart of a Sunburned Land
  The Heart of a Sunburned Land is a novel written by Australian authoress Elizabeth Haran and published in 2002 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.-Synopsis:...
  
  , 2002
• Sunset over Eden
  Sunset over Eden
  Sunset over Eden is a novel written by the Australian author Elizabeth Haran and published in 2003 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.-Background information:...
  
  , 2003
• Stars in the Southern Sky
  Stars in the Southern Sky
  Stars in the Southern Sky is a novel written by Australian authoress Elizabeth Haran and published in 2004 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.-Synopsis:...
  
  , 2004
• River of Fortune
  River of Fortune
  River of Fortune is a novel written by Australian authoress Elizabeth Haran and published in 2005 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.-Synopsis:Joe Callaghan is in trouble so his daughter Francesca, returns to the river port of Echuca, determined to help him. Three men vie for her attention, but it’s a lovable...
  
  , 2005
• Whispers in the Wind, 2006
• Under a Flaming Sky, 2007
• The Tantanoola Tiger, 2008
• Dance of the Fiery Blue Gums, 2009
• A Faraway Place in the Sun, 2010
• The Mundi-Mundi Legend, 2011

Audiobooks

All audiobooks are available in German only.

• "A Woman For All Seasons
  A Woman For All Seasons
  A Woman For All Seasons is a novel written by Australian authoress Elizabeth Haran and published in 2001 by Bastei Lübbe Verlag.-Synopsis:...
  
  " German title "Ein Hoffnungsstern am Himmel", 2008
• "The Island Of Red Earth" German title "Die Insel der roten Erde", 2008
• "In The Valley Of The Flaming Sun" German title "Im Tal der flammenden Sonne", 2008

External links

• Elizabeth Haran Official Website
• German publisher: Bastei Lübbe Verlag