Christopher Brookmyre

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Christopher Brookmyre (born September 6, 1968 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a Scottish novelist .

Life

After studying English literature and theater studies at the University of Glasgow in 1989, he worked as a journalist in London , Los Angeles and Edinburgh . After three unsuccessful attempts, his first novel was published in 1996 under the title Quite Ugly One Morning . This is where the protagonist Jack Parlabane , the main character in five of his books, appears for the first time. Parlabane is an investigative journalist who, in his research, interprets the limits of what is allowed very broadly.

All Brookmyre books are thrillers that are spiced with a lot of satire and black humor. They are less in the tradition of British crime writers, but are more based on American models such as Carl Hiaasen . The plot often serves as a hook for criticism of politics and society in Britain .

Christopher Brookmyre is married to an anesthetist and is a fan of the Scottish football club St. Mirren .

Awards

  • 1996 Critics' First Blood Award for Quite Ugly One Morning
  • 1997 Crime Writers' Association Macallan Short Story Dagger
  • 2000 Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective for Boiling a Frog
  • 2006 7th Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Fiction for All Fun and Games until Someone Loses an Eye

Works

  • Quite Ugly One Morning. 1996
  • Country of the Blind. 1997
  • Not the End of the World. 1998
  • One Fine Day in the Middle of the Night. 1999
  • Boiling a frog. 2000
  • A Big Boy did it and Ran Away. 2001
    • German edition: Who builds a bomb for others. Translated from the English by Hannes Meyer. Galiani, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-86971-163-8 .
  • The Sacred Art of Stealing. 2003
    • German edition: The high art of bank robbery. Translated from the English by Hannes Meyer. Galiani, Berlin 2013, ISBN 978-3-86971-077-8 .
  • Be My Enemy. 2004
  • All Fun and Games until Somebody Loses an Eye. 2005
  • A Tale Etched in Blood and Hard Black Pencil. 2006
  • Attack of the Unsinkable Rubber Ducks 2007
    • German edition: Attack of the unsinkable rubber ducks. Translated from the English by Hannes Meyer. Galiani, Berlin 2014, ISBN 978-3-86971-097-6 .
  • A Snowball in Hell. 2008
  • Pandemonium. 2009
  • Where The Bodies Are Buried. 2011
    • German edition: Who wakes sleeping dogs. Translated from the English by Hannes Meyer. Galiani, Berlin 2012 ISBN 978-3-86971-063-1 .
  • When the Devil Drives. 2012
  • Bedlam. 2013
  • Flesh wounds. 2013
  • Bred in the bone. 2014
  • Dead girl walking. 2015
  • Black Widow . 2016
  • Want You Gone. 2017
    • German edition: Dark friends. Translated from the English by Karl-Heinz Ebnet. Rowohlt, Hamburg 2019, ISBN 978-3-499-27492-3 .

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personal data
SURNAME Brookmyre, Christopher
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Scottish novelist
DATE OF BIRTH September 6, 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Glasgow