Denise Mina

Denise Mina

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Denise Mina (born August 21, 1966 in Glasgow , Scotland ) is a British writer . Since her Garnethill debut (1998), she has published 12 novels , including crime fiction , plays , short stories and graphic novels .

Life

Mina is the daughter of an engineer in the petroleum industry. Her father's job meant that the family moved 21 times between Glasgow, The Hague , Paris and Bergen in 18 years .

Mina left school at the age of 16 and worked for several years as an assistant in various industries. She later caught up with school and began studying law at the University of Glasgow . She finished her studies and went to the University of Strathclyde and was able to do a doctorate in this subject . During her doctoral studies, she received a teaching position in criminology .

Books

In Great Britain , Denise Mina is discussed as 'Queen of Tartan Noir', a Scottish variety of crime noir, and has been honored with numerous nominations and prizes. She received the Dagger Award and the Barry Award for her work, and in 2012 and 2013 she won the Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award. 2014, it was in the Crime Writers'Association Hall of Fame added .

Mina's sequel, Alex Morrow, accompanies a Glasgow crime investigator. The first, second and fourth cases were published in German by Heyne Verlag . Her fifth Marrow novel, Blood Salt Water , was included in the Ariadne crime novel series by Argument Verlag in 2018 . After being re-launched, it jumped to second place on the best crime thriller list in May 2018 .

Honors

• 1998 Dagger Award (CWA) in the category of best first novel for "Garnethill" and Barry Award
• 2006 Barry Award , Best British Novel
• 2007 nomination: Edgar Award
• 2001 nomination: Gold Dagger
• 2011 Martin Beck Award
• 2012 and 2013 Theakstons Crime Novel of the Year Award
• 2016 nomination: Gold Dagger
• 2017 Gordon Burn Prize & McIlvanney Prize

Works (selection)

prose

the Garnett trilogy

• Garnetthill (1998)
  • Shout louder, Maureen , German by Doris Styron; Lichtenberg, Munich 1999. ISBN 3-426-61926-1
• Exile (2000)
  • The second dead , German by Doris Styron; Droemer Knaur, Munich 2003. ISBN 3-426-62401-X
• Resolution (2002)

the Paddy Meehan range

• The Field of Blood (2005)
  • The back man , German by Doris Styron; Droemer Knaur, Munich 2007. ISBN 978-3-426-63212-3
• The Dead Hour (2006)
  • The dead hour , German by Heike Schlatterer; Heyne, Munich 2016. ISBN 978-3-453-43492-9
• The Last Breath (2007)
  • The last will , German by Conny Lösch ; Heyne, Munich 2013. ISBN 978-3-453-43442-4

the Alex Morrow series

• Still Midnight (2009)
  • In the Silence of the Night , German by Conny Lösch; Heyne, Munich 2010. ISBN 978-3-453-43490-5
• The End of the Wasp Season (2010)
  • Blind Fury , German by Conny Lösch; Heyne, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-453-43491-2
• Gods and Beasts (2012)
  • Gods and Animals , German by Karen Gerwig; Argument, Hamburg 2020. ISBN 978-3-86754-246-3
• The Red Road (2013)
  • Forgetting , German by Heike Schlatterer, Heyne, Munich 2014. ISBN 978-3-453-41787-8
• Blood Salt Water (2014)
  • Blood Salt Water , German by Zoë Beck , Argument, Hamburg 2018. ISBN 978-3-86754-230-2

Other novels

• Sanctum (2003) (US title: Deception )
  • Refugium , German by Doris Styron; Knaur, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-426-62718-3
• The Long Drop (2017)
• Conviction (2019)
  • Clear matter , German by Zoë Beck, Argument, Hamburg 2019. ISBN 978-3-86754-242-5

comics

• Empathy is the enemy (Hellblazer). Titan Press, London 2006, ISBN 1-84576-382-3 (illustrated by Leonardo Manco ).
• The red right hand (Hellblazer). Titan Press, London 2007, ISBN 978-1-84576-568-2 (illustrated by Leonardo Manco).

Plays

• Ida Tamson . City Council, Glasgow 2006, ISBN 0-906169-61-5 .
• A drunk woman looks at the thistle . 2007 (based on Hugh MacDiarmids A drunk man looks at the thistle ).

Web links

• Literature by and about Denise Mina in the catalog of the German National Library
• Homepage of Denise Mina
• Translator Zoë Beck in conversation with Denise Mina
• The ten best crime novels in August 2016, Zeit Krimibestenliste

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Queen of Tartan Noir to take on Tattoo Girl . ( scotsman.com [accessed March 22, 2018]).
2. ↑ The ten best crime novels in May 2018, DLF Kultur, accessed May 7, 2018
3. ^ Randomhouse Vita of Denise Mina. Retrieved January 8, 2017 .