CJ Sansom

Christopher John Sansom (* 1952 in Edinburgh ) is a British writer .

Life

Born and raised in Edinburgh, the only child of a Presbyterian family, Sansom studied history at the University of Birmingham and received his PhD on Labor Party politics on South Africa . After working in various professions for a while, he changed his career and became a lawyer until he limited himself to writing.

He became known for the Matthew Shardlake series , a series of novels about the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake in England during the reign of Henry VIII , who in the first two novels went on a dangerous political mission on behalf of Thomas Cromwell .

Sansom lives in Brighton .

Awards

• 2003 Flintyxan of the Swedish crime magazine Jury for Upplösning (Original: Dissolution)
• 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger of the British Crime Writers' Association for Dark Fire

Film adaptations

The BBC planned to film the first part of the Matthew Shardlake series for television; Kenneth Branagh was to take on the leading role . The project is currently not being pushed forward.

Works

The Matthew Shardlake series

• 2003 dissolution
  • Volume 1: Gate of Doom. Historical detective novel, German by Irmengard Gabler, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2005. ISBN 978-3-596-15840-9 .
• 2004 Dark Fire
  • Volume 2: Fire of Retribution. Historical detective novel, German by Irmengard Gabler, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2006. ISBN 978-3-596-15845-4 .
• 2006 Sovereign
  • Volume 3: The King's Lawyer. Historical detective novel, German by Irmengard Gabler, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2009. ISBN 978-3-596-17567-3 .
• 2008 Revelation
  • Volume 4: The Devil's Book. Historical detective novel, German by Irmengard Gabler, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010. ISBN 978-3-596-18671-6 .
• 2010 Heartstone , 2011 nominated for the Walter Scott Prize
  • Volume 5: Arrow of Vengeance. Historical detective novel, German by Irmengard Gabler, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2011. ISBN 978-3-596-19105-5 .
• 2014 lamentation
  • Volume 6: The Scriptures of Death. Historical detective novel, German by Irmengard Gabler, Fischer Taschenbuchverlag, Frankfurt am Main 2015. ISBN 978-3-5960-3337-9 .
• 2018 tombland

Other publications

• 2006 winter in Madrid . Macmillan, London 2006, ISBN 1-4050-0546-7 .
• 2013 Dominion . Pan Macmillan ISBN 978-0-230-74416-5
  • Enemy territory . German by Christine Naegele, Heyne Verlag, Munich 2020. ISBN 978-3-453-43942-9

Web links

• Literature by and about CJ Sansom in the catalog of the German National Library
• Short biography in the magazine histo-couch
• Interview and portrait in the Guardian, November 15, 2010 (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2010/nov/15/cj-sansom-interview
2. ↑ http://www.histo-couch.de/cj-sansom.html