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The protagonist of all but two of Paretsky's novels is the female private investigator V.I. Warshawski, and the author is credited with transforming the role and image of women in the crime novel. [ 6 ] [ 7 ] The Winter 2007 issue of Clues: A Journal of Detection is devoted to her work. [ 8 ]
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. [1] The Association also promotes crime writing of fiction and non-fiction by holding annual ...
The Memorial John Creasey Dagger, Crime Writers' Association, 2005, the first time a Black British writer has scooped this honour. World Book Night Selection, Geezer Girls, 2014. Contributor in the multi-award winning Books To Die For anthology, 2014; 50 Remarkable Women in Britain, Lady Geek in association with Nokia, 2012
Elizabeth Fenwick and E. P. Fenwick (pseudonyms for Elizabeth Fenwick Way) Mary Fitt (pseudonym for Kathleen Freeman) (1897–1959) Joanne Fluke (born 1943) Gillian Flynn (born 1971) Elena Forbes. Karin Fossum (born 1954) Earlene Fowler (born 1954) Barbara Fradkin.
First awarded. 1996. Website. www.womensprizeforfiction.co.uk. The Women's Prize for Fiction (previously called Orange Prize for Fiction (1996–2006 & 2009–12), Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction (2007–2008) and Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction (2014–2017)) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes, [4][5][6 ...
The CWA Gold Dagger is an award given annually by the Crime Writers' Association of the United Kingdom since 1960 for the best crime novel of the year. From 1955 to 1959, the organization named their top honor as the Crossed Red Herring Award. From 1995 to 2002 the award acquired sponsorship from Macallan and was known as the Macallan Gold ...
During a gap year between school and Durham University, 1968, Walters volunteered in Israel with The Bridge in Britain, working on a kibbutz and in a delinquent boys' home in Jerusalem. She graduated from Trevelyan College, Durham in 1971 with a BA in French. Minette met her husband Alec Walters while she was at Durham and they married in 1978.
Author. Genre. Crime fiction, Romance, Children's fiction. Years active. 2000s-present. Notable works. Ruth Galloway series, Stephens and Mephisto series. Elly Griffiths is the pen name of Domenica de Rosa[1] (born 17 August 1963, in London), [2] a British crime novelist. She has written three series as Griffiths, one featuring Ruth Galloway ...