Alan Bradley

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Alan Bradley (born October 10, 1938 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian author and electrical and television technician . He became internationally known in the 2010s with his crime series about the 11-year-old detective Flavia de Luce.

Life

Bradley grew up in Cobourg in the province of Ontario on. After training as an electrical engineer, he worked for various television and radio stations. Eventually he became director of television engineering at the University of Saskatchewan's New Media Center in Saskatoon . In 1994 he gave up the activity and started working exclusively as an author .

He wrote several screenplays for television and also taught screenwriting. He also wrote short stories that were also broadcast on the radio. He also worked as a lifestyle columnist for several newspapers. He was particularly successful with the publication of stories for children, for which he received the Saskatchewan Writers Guild Award for Children's Literature. In the 2000s he also turned to the crime genre . He developed the heroine Flavia de Luce from one of his children's characters and submitted the beginning of a story to the British Crime Writers' Association. In 2007 he was awarded the Debut Dagger for best unpublished work. He received international offers from publishers and in 2009 published the crime thriller The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie . The book was successful in numerous countries and received a number of prestigious crime prizes. In the following years he continued the story with numerous other novels as a series.

Bradley lives on the Isle of Man with his wife Shirley.

Works

Flavia de Luce

  1. The sweetness at the bottom of the pie. 2009.
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. Murder in the cucumber patch. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-7645-3027-3 .
  2. The Weed That Strings the Hangman's Bag. 2010.
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. Murder isn't child's play. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2010, ISBN 978-3-7645-3029-7 .
  3. A Red Herring Without Mustard. 2011.
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. Scoundrels, death and the devil. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2011, ISBN 978-3-7645-3026-6 .
  4. I Am Half-Sick of Shadows . 2011, ISBN 978-0-385-34401-2 .
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. Curtain up on a corpse. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-7645-3098-3 .
  5. Speaking from Among the Bones 2013.
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. Final chord for a murder. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2013, ISBN 978-3-7645-3099-0 .
  6. The Dead in Their Vaulted Arches 2014.
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. Dead birds don't sing. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2014, ISBN 978-3-7645-3100-3 .
  7. As Chimney Sweepers Come to Dust. 2015.
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. A corpse stirs up dust. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2016, ISBN 978-3-7645-3112-6 .
  8. Thrice the Brinded Cat Hath Mew'd. 2016.
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. Murder is not the last word. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2017, ISBN 3-7645-3113-4
  9. The Grave's a Fine and Private Place 2018.
  10. The Golden Tresses of the Dead 2019.
    • German edition: Flavia de Luce. Kiss of death with frosting. Penhaligon Verlag, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-7645-3115-7

Other

Flavia de Luce

Bradley's heroine is 11-year-old Flavia de Luce. Around 1950 she lived with her father Colonel Haviland de Luce and her two sisters Ophelia (17), a budding professional musician, and Daphne (13), a bookworm with whom she had a kind of love-hate relationship, together on Buckshaw, the family seat of the de Luces, not far from the village of Bishop's Lacey. The mother died shortly after Flavia's birth while mountain climbing in the Himalayas, but her body was never found. The Buckshaw servants are the gardener Dogger and the housekeeper Mrs. Mullet, whose cooking skills are not generally valued by every family member.

Buckshaw is built in the Georgian style and was subsequently expanded to include a west and an east wing. In the latter is Flavia's realm: a spacious and fully equipped laboratory that once belonged to Flavia's uncle, Tarquin de Luce. In addition to the relevant specialist literature, it has an apparently never-ending supply of powders and tinctures. Despite her age, Flavia is an enthusiastic and accomplished chemist and is interested in poisons of all kinds, hobbies that she shared with her in her revenge campaigns against the unloved sisters and especially in solving the murder cases in which the young hobby detective is often unintentionally entangled Benefits are.

Equipped with a large portion of healthy self-confidence, the often rebellious Flavia approaches individual cases, which often lead her into life-threatening situations, with childlike curiosity and equally impartiality, but also with determination. During the investigation, she regularly competes with the responsible police inspector Hewitt, whom she is often a step ahead in her own investigations. Although the inspector disapproves of Flavia's going it alone, he cannot hide the fact that her research and discoveries are fundamentally of great, if not decisive, use. Flavia has a warm friendship with his wife Antigone.

Awards

  • 2007 Dagger Award for an unreleased debut for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
  • 2010 Arthur Ellis Award for Best Debut Novel for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
  • 2010 Agatha Award for Best Debut Novel for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
  • 2010 Dilys Award for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
  • 2010 Spotted Owl Award for The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.
  • 2010 Macavity Award for: The Sweetness at the Bottom of the Pie.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Author Snapshot: Alan Bradley , Linda L. Richards, January Magazine, February 11, 2009
  2. ^ Biography - Alan Bradley . In: Alan Bradley . ( alanbradleyauthor.com [accessed November 4, 2017]).
  3. ↑ Alan Bradley: A Powerful Blast Of Inspiration , The Reading Lists, Sept. 8, 2018
  4. ↑ including from murder in the cucumber patch
personal data
SURNAME Bradley, Alan
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian author
DATE OF BIRTH October 10, 1938
PLACE OF BIRTH Toronto , Ontario , Canada