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Ellis Peters Historical Award
The CWA Historical Dagger (currently called the CWA Endeavor Historical Dagger) is an annual award given by the British Crime Writers' Association to the author of the best historical crime novel of the year. Established in 1999, it is presented to a novel "with a crime theme and a historical background of any period up to 35 years before the current year". The award was called the Ellis Peters Historical Dagger from 1999 to 2005, and was known as the Ellis Peters Historical Award from 2006 to 2012, to commemorate the life and work of historical crime writer Ellis Peters, whose '' Cadfael Chronicles'' (1977–1994) are generally credited with popularizing the genre that would become known as the historical mystery. Starting in 2014, the award became known as the CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger through sponsorship by Endeavor Press. Winners * 1999: '' Two for the Lions'' (Century) – Lindsey Davis * 2000: ''Absent Friends'' (Virago) – Gillian Linscott * 2001: ''The Office Of Th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Crime Writers' Association
The Crime Writers' Association (CWA) is a specialist authors’ organisation in the United Kingdom, most notable for its Dagger awards for the best crime writing of the year, and the Diamond Dagger awarded to an author for lifetime achievement. The Association also promotes crime writing of fiction and non-fiction by holding annual competitions, publicising literary festivals and establishing links with libraries, booksellers and other writer organisations, both in the UK such as the Society of Authors, and overseas. The CWA enables members to network at its annual conference and through its regional chapters as well as through dedicated social media channels and private website. Members' events and general news items are published on the CWA website which also features Find An Author where CWA members are listed and information provided about themselves, their books and their awards. The CWA publishes a monthly magazine exclusively for members called ''Red Herrings'', edited by M ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
CJ Sansom
Christopher John Sansom (born 1952) is a British writer of historical crime novels, best known for his Matthew Shardlake series. He was born in Edinburgh and attended George Watson's College in that city, but left the school with no qualifications. Sansom has written about the bullying he suffered there. Subsequently he was educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, before leaving the legal profession to become a full-time writer. He lives in Sussex. Work Sansom came to prominence with the Shardlake series, his historical mystery series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century. The series' main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake, who is assisted in his adventures by Mark Poer, then Jack Barak and also Nicholas Overton. Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Awards Established In 1999
An award, sometimes called a distinction, is something given to a recipient as a token of recognition of excellence in a certain field. When the token is a medal, ribbon or other item designed for wearing, it is known as a decoration. An award may be described by three aspects: 1) who is given 2) what 3) by whom, all varying according to purpose. The recipient is often to a single person, such as a student or athlete, or a representative of a group of people, be it an organisation, a sports team or a whole country. The award item may be a decoration, that is an insignia suitable for wearing, such as a medal, badge, or rosette (award). It can also be a token object such as certificate, diploma, championship belt, trophy, or plaque. The award may also be or be accompanied by a title of honor, as well as an object of direct value such as prize money or a scholarship. Furthermore, an honorable mention is an award given, typically in education, that does not confer the recipient(s ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1999 Establishments In The United Kingdom
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Vaseem Khan
Vaseem Khan (born 1973) is a British writer, author of the Baby Ganesh Detective Agency novels – a series of crime novels set in India – featuring retired Mumbai police Inspector Ashwin Chopra and his sidekick, a baby elephant named Ganesha. Khan had won the Shamus Award and the Eastern Eye's Arts Culture & Theatre Awards for Literature. Biography Khan was born in the London Borough of Newham, studied at the Coopers' Company and Coborn School in Upminster, Havering, did A-Levels at Newham College of Further Education, before studying Accounting and Finance at the London School of Economics. He then spent a decade on the subcontinent working as a management consultant to an Indian hotel group building environmentally-friendly hotels around the country, called ECOTELS. He returned to the UK in 2006 and has since worked at University College London for the Department of Security and Crime Science. The decade that Khan spent in India led to him writing ''The Unexpected Inher ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
David Young (novelist)
David John Young is an English novelist whose crime thriller series featuring a fictional Volkspolizei detective, Karin Müller, is set in 1970s East Germany. Young's debut novel '' Stasi Child'' won the 2016 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for the best historical crime novel of the year. Both it and the follow-up, ''Stasi Wolf'', were longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively. In 2017, Bonnier Zaffre, the UK adult fiction division of the Bonnier Group, announced Young had signed a six-figure deal for three further novels in the series, making five in all, with the third, ''A Darker State'', being published in February 2018. Young says the inspiration for the series came after his indie pop band The Candy Twins toured Germany in 2007 and he read Anna Funder's non-fiction book ''Stasiland'' between gigs. He secured the tour thanks to favourable comments made by Edwyn Collins about a tribute song Young wrote about him. B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Stasi Child (novel)
''Stasi Child'' is a novel by David Young which won the 2016 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for the best historical crime novel of the year. It was also longlisted for the 2016 Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. Plot The novel is set in East Germany in the mid-seventies and follows a double-stranded narrative. The main story is told in third-person through the eyes of Volkspolizei detective Oberleutnant Karin Müller, who is investigating the murder of a teenage girl found in a cemetery in East Berlin, apparently having been shot by western guards while attempting to escape into the East. Müller’s ‘handler’ is Stasi lieutenant colonel Klaus Jäger who warns her the investigation is limited to identifying the girl – not challenging the official version of the killing. Müller disregards this warning, and her story eventually coincides with a first-person narrative told in the present tense by Irma Behrendt. Irma is an inmate of a severe Jugendwerk ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Antonia Hodgson
Antonia Hodgson (born 1971) is a British historical crime writer and publisher. Life Hodgson was born in Derby in 1971. She attended Littleover Community School. She graduated with a degree in English Literature from Leeds University in 1994 and she went to work for Harcourt, Brace.Antonia Hodgson The Bookseller, retrieved 29 May 2015 Hodgson spent nearly twenty years in the publishing business rising to editor-in-chief at before she published her own first novel. Hodgson's first novel, ''A Devil in the Marshalsea'', was set in the time of the early Georgians, |
Aly Monroe
Aly Monroe is a British writer of historical thrillers set in the 1940s. She was brought up in Purley, England. She has spent a large part of her life in Spain, where she worked as a teacher, translator and voice-over artist. She is the author of the Peter Cotton series of historical novels, including ''Icelight'' which won the 2012 Ellis Peters Historical Award. Bibliography Monroe's series character is Peter Cotton who works for the British intelligence service. Her first novel, ''The Maze of Cadiz'', is set in Spain, where Monroe lived for many years. The second novel, ''Washington Shadow'', was set in Washington, DC and shortlisted for the CWA CWA or Cwa may refer to: Organisations * CWA Constructions, a Swiss manufacturer of gondolas and people mover cabins, a division of Doppelmayr Garaventa Group * Catch Wrestling Association, a former German professional wrestling promotion * Contin ... Ellis Peters Historical Fiction Award. The third novel of the series, ''Iceligh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Andrew Martin (novelist)
Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist, documentary maker, journalist and musician. Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at Merton College, Oxford and qualified as a barrister. He has since worked as a freelance journalist for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with ''Bilton'', a comic novel about journalists, and ''The Bobby Dazzlers'', a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named ''Spectator'' Young Writer of the Year. ''The Guardian'' claimed ''Bilton'' and ''The Bobby Dazzlers'' "rank high in the lists of the best comic novels published in the past 10 years". His series of detective novels about Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the North Eastern Railway police in Edwardian England, includes ''The Necropolis Railway'' (set on the real London Necropolis Railway), ''The Blackpool Highflyer'', ''The Lost Luggage Porter'', ''Murder at Deviation Junction'', ''Death on a Branch Line'', ''The Last Train to ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Philip Kerr
Philip Ballantyne Kerr (22 February 1956 – 23 March 2018) was a British author, best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical detective thrillers. Early life Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father was an engineer and his mother worked as a secretary. He was educated at a grammar school in Northampton. He studied at the University of Birmingham from 1974 to 1980, gaining a master's degree in law and philosophy. Kerr worked as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi & Saatchi before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. In a 2012 interview, Kerr noted that he began his literary career at the age of twelve by writing pornographic stories and lending them to classmates for a fee. Career A writer of both adult fiction and non-fiction, he is known for the Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther series of 14 historical thrillers set in Germany and elsewhere during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War. He also wrote children's books under the name P. B. Ker ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Laura Wilson (writer)
Laura Wilson (born 1964) is an English crime writer based in London, where she was born and raised. She has degrees in English Literature form Somerville College, Oxford, and University College London, and has worked as a teacher and editor of non-fiction. Many of her novels have either a historical setting or a distinct historical connection, and often have split or dual narratives. Her fifth novel, '' The Lover'', won the Prix du Polar Européen in 2005, and her eighth, ''Stratton’s War'', won the Crime Writers' Association's 2008 Ellis Peters Award for Best Historical Mystery. Both ''The Lover'' and '' A Thousand Lies'' were shortlisted for the Crime Writers' Association's Gold Dagger, and ''A Little Death'', ''The Lover'' and ''An Empty Death'' were shortlisted for the Ellis Peters Award. She is The Guardian ''The Guardian'' is a British daily newspaper. It was founded in 1821 as ''The Manchester Guardian'', and changed its name in 1959. Along with its sister pape ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
