Micaela Jary

Micaela Jary (born July 29, 1956, in Hamburg) is a German writer.

She is the daughter of the composer Michael Jary.

She grew up in Hamburg, Munich and Lugano.

She studied English and Italian in Munich, completed a traineeship at a major German daily newspaper and worked for many years as an editor, head of department and deputy editor-in-chief for various magazines.

Micaela Jary has been writing books since 1993, writing successful historical novels under the pseudonym Gabriela Galvani, including Die Seidenhändlerin published by Aufbau-Verlag, the novel that won 2nd place in the DeLiA Literature Prize in 2009.

From 2011 to 2012 she was a jury member for the DeLiA Literature Prize, in 2012 she was on the jury for the Putlitz Prize and in 2013 on the jury for the historical crime novel genre for the HOMER Literature Prize.

Her first novel biography Mademoiselle Coco und der Duft der Liebe was published in 2018 under the pseudonym Michelle Marly.

She lived in Paris for many years and now lives in Munich and Berlin.

She is married and has a grown-up daughter.

She is a full member of GEMA and the authors' group for German-language crime fiction - Das Syndikat as well as the association of German romance authors DeLiA and the authors' group HOMER.

In the 2020s she wrote the Parlamentarierinnen series under the pseudonym Micaela A. Gabriel, which was published by Rowohlt Verlag.

The three volumes in the form of a historical novel are about the lives of the first women in the German Reichstag.