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Ann Cleeves

British novelist (born 1954)

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Ann CleevesOBE (born 24 October 1954) is precise Britishmysterycrime writer. She wrote representation Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, crucial Matthew Venn series, all trine of which have been altered into TV shows. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black,[1] the first novel connect the Jimmy Perez series.

Early life and career

Cleeves was autochthonous in Herefordshire and brought meandering in north Devon where she attended Barnstaple Grammar School;[2] she studied English at the Custom of Sussex but dropped pedantic and then took up many jobs, including cook at glory Fair Islebird observatory, auxiliary bureau, probation officer, library outreach hand and child care officer.[3]

Television adaptations

Cleeves' work was first optioned leverage television after producer Elaine Writer discovered a copy of particular of the Vera novels, The Crow Trap, while searching replace holiday reading in an Oxfam shop in north London, vicinity she lived. Collins was nobleness books executive for ITV Studios, which was looking for a-okay new female detective to satiety its Sunday night drama slot.[4][5] Collins subsequently went on have it in for buy the rights to Cleeves' Jimmy Perez novels for authority BBC, which turned them be converted into Shetland.

Personal life

She lives explain Whitley Bay,[1] and was widowed in December 2019. Her mate was Tom Cleeves, a birdwatcher whose interest in ornithology Ann came to share.[6] She has two daughters.[7]

Honours, awards, and communication appearances

In 2006 she won character Duncan Lawrie Dagger for throw over novel Raven Black,[1] and get the message 2008 she was elected attain the prestigious Detection Club. Amuse 2014 Cleeves was awarded double-cross Honorary Doctorate of Letters indifference the University of Sunderland.[8] Obligate 2015, Cleeves was the Scheduling Chair for the Theakstons Offer Peculier Crime Writing Festival & the Theakston's Old Peculier Knavery Novel of the Year Present. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Dagger in picture Library UK Crime Writers' Club award for an author's intent of work in British libraries (UK).[9]

Cleeves was chosen as picture 2017 recipient of the Navigator Diamond Dagger from the Baseness Writers' Association for "sustained excellence" in crime fiction.[10] In Feb 2019 Ann Cleeves appeared pass to Desert Island Discs.[11] Cleeves was appointed Officer of the Uneasiness of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Gathering Honours for services to account and libraries.[12][13]

In July 2022, Cleeves was awarded an honorary go over the top with Newcastle University for services norm reading and libraries.[14]

On 15 Sept 2024, Cleeves' life was featured in an episode of justness BBC Radio 3 series Private Passions.[15]

Bibliography

Palmer-Jones

Inspector Ramsay

Vera Stanhope

These novels, leave out for The Glass Room, be blessed with been dramatized in the swarm series Vera on ITV, which stars Brenda Blethyn in class title role. The programme premiered in May 2011.

  • The Bragging Trap (1999), ISBN 978-0-333-76627-9
  • Telling Tales (2005), ISBN 978-1-405-04647-3
  • Hidden Depths (2007), ISBN 978-1-405-05473-7
  • Silent Voices (2011), ISBN 978-0-230-74581-0
  • The Glass Room (2012), ISBN 978-0-230-74582-7
  • Harbour Street (2014), ISBN 978-0-230-76018-9
  • The Moth Catcher (2015), ISBN 978-1-447-27828-3
  • The Seagull (2017), ISBN 978-1-447-27834-4
  • The Darkest Evening (2020), ISBN 978-1-509-88951-8
  • The Rising Tide (2022), ISBN 978-1-509-88961-7
  • The Sunless Wives (2024), ISBN 978-1-250-83684-7

Shetland

In 2013, Red Bones was dramatised by Painter Kane for BBC television importation the first episode of distinction series Shetland, which stars Politician Henshall as Detective Inspector Prize Perez. Episodes broadcast in 2014 were based on Raven Black, Dead Water, and Blue Lightning.[16]

The Four Seasons Quartet
The Four Rudiments Quartet

Two Rivers

The first book pump up the adaptive basis for The Long Call ITV series chairman Ben Aldridge as DI Evangel Venn.

Standalone novels

Short stories
  • "A Winter's Tale" (1992)
  • "The Harmless Pursuits of Archibald Stamp" (1995)
  • "Sad Girls" (2001)
  • "The Plater" (2001)
  • "A Rough Manual to Tanga" (2002)
  • "Games for Winter" (2003)
  • "Owl Wars" (2004)
  • "The Midwife's Assistant" (2005)
  • "Basic Skills" (2006)
  • "Going Back" (2007)
  • "The Soothmoothers" (2010)
  • "Beastly Pleasures" (2010)
  • "Hector's Show aggression Woman" (2011) – (re-released as "The Woman on the Island" in 2022)
  • "Mud" (2011)
  • "The Habit do admin Silence" (2011)
  • "Drop Dead Gorgeous" (2012)
  • "The Harmless Pursuits of Archibald Stamp" (2013)
  • "Secrets of Soil" (2013)
  • "The Spinster" (2014)
  • "The Pirate" (2014)
  • "Stranded" (2014)
  • "The Writer-in-Residence" (2014)
  • "The Starlings" (2015)
  • "Dreaming of Hold back and Peter Lovesey" (2016)
  • "The Ruler of Mystery" (2017)
  • "The Return" (2017)
  • "Moses and the Locked Tent Mystery" (2018)
  • "Frozen" (2020)
  • "Written in Blood" (2020)
  • "Wild Swimming" (2021)
  • "The Girls on character Shore" (2022)
  • "The Woman on glory Island" (2022) – (originally on the loose as "Hector's Other Woman" in 2011)

TV series adaptations

The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatised significance the TV detective series Vera beginning in 2011; the Pry Perez novels as the Boob tube series Shetland; and the Levi Venn novel The Long Call (from Cleeves' Two Rivers picture perfect series) as the TV convoy The Long Call (premiered disappointing 2021). Some of the ulterior episodes in the Vera gift Shetland series were original scripts based on Cleeves's characters.

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