Eric Wright (writer)

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Eric Wright (born May 4, 1929 in South London , United Kingdom - † October 9, 2015 ) was a Canadian writer and university professor of British origin.

Life

Eric Wright was born in 1929 on Kennington Park Road in South London, England to the tailor Caroline (née Curnow) and the carter Joseph Wright. Wright was born into an impoverished extended family of nine siblings. After growing up in Lambeth , he emigrated to Canada in 1951.

Wright attended the University of Manitoba , where he completed his Bachelor of Arts in 1957, and the University of Toronto , where he received his Magister artium in 1963. Until his retirement in 1989 he taught English at Ryerson Polytechnic University in Toronto . Wright continued to live in metropolitan Ontario with his wife and two daughters.

Whright's books have won various awards over the years. Four of his crime novels alone received the Arthur Ellis Award for Best Crime Novel . These include The Night the Gods Smiled , which also received the Toronto Book Awards and the British John Creasy Memorial Award as well as the Dagger Award in 1984 . Smoke Detector and Death in the Old Country also won the Arthus Ellis Award. In 1998 Wright received the Derrick Murdoch Award for life's work as a detective writer . His novel The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn subsequently won the Edgar Allan Poe Award .

Wright is best known for the laconic and easy-to-understand style of his description of everyday police life, in which Police Inspector Charlie Salter of the Metropolitan Toronto Police plays the lead role.

In contrast, his novel Moodie's Tale, similar to Colin Dexter's, offered a vivid description of everyday academic life, which was positively received by critics. Wright's memoir, Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man , on the other hand, allows a deeper insight into his personal life.

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Charlie Salter Mysteries

  • The Night the Gods Smiled (1984)
    • The night when the gods smiled . Translated into German by Gisela Kirst-Tinnefeld, Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990, ISBN 3-404-19082-3 .
  • Smoke Detector (1984)
    • Ashes to ashes . Translated into German by Eva Hébert-Milde, Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1990, ISBN 3-404-19085-8 .
  • Death in the Old Country (1985)
    • Death in the land of the fathers . Translated into German by Eva Hébert-Milde, Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1991, ISBN 3-404-19091-2 .
  • A Single Death (1986)
    • Later murder not excluded . Translated into German by Eva Hébert-Milde, Bastei-Verlag Lübbe, Bergisch Gladbach 1991, ISBN 3-404-13324-2 .
  • A Body Surrounded by Water (1987)
  • A Question of Murder (1988)
  • A Sensitive Case (1990)
  • Final Cut (1991)
  • A Fine Italian Hand (1992)
  • Death by Degrees (1993)
  • The Last Hand (2002)

Lucy Trimble Brenner Mysteries

  • Death of a Sunday Writer (1996)
  • Death on the Rocks (1999)

Mel Pickett Mysteries

  • Buried in Stone (1996)
  • Death of A Hired Man (2001)

Joe Barley Mysteries

  • The Kidnapping of Rosie Dawn (2000)
  • The Hemingway Caper (2003)
  • A Likely Story (2010)

memoirs

  • Always Give a Penny to a Blind Man (1999)

Other writings

  • Moodie's Tale (1994)
  • Twins (2001)
  • Finding Home (2007)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Eric Wright, Canadian crime writer, dead at age 86
  2. ^ Wright, Eric. Always give a penny to a blind man . Key porter Books, 2002.
  3. ^ Encyclopedia of Literature in Canada. University of Toronto Press, 2002.
  4. ^ The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press Canada, 2001.
  5. ↑ Books Bytes, November 1, 2010. ( Memento of the original from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.booksnbytes.com
  6. ^ The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press Canada, 2001.
  7. ↑ St. Martin's Press, MacMillan Books. Archived copy ( memento of the original from October 6, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Nov. 1, 2010. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / us.macmillan.com
  8. ^ The Concise Oxford Companion to Canadian Literature. Oxford University Press Canada, 2001.
  9. ^ Wright, Eric. Books in Canada. Toronto: Oct 1994. Vol. 23, Iss. 7; P. 44.
personal data
SURNAME Wright, Eric
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and university professor of British descent
DATE OF BIRTH May 4, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH South London , England , UK
DATE OF DEATH October 9, 2015