Gail Bowen

Gail Dianne Bowen (born September 22, 1942 in Toronto , Ontario ) is a Canadian writer , university teacher and playwright . She is one of the crime writers .

Life

Born as Gail Dianne Bartholomew in Toronto in 1944, she attended the University of Toronto , the University of Waterloo and the University of Saskatchewan . She then taught English at the University of Saskatchewan. She later was an Associate Professor of English at the First Nations University of Canada before retiring.

She currently resides in Regina , Saskatchewan with her husband, Ted Wren Bowen, whom she married in 1968 . The couple has three children.

Bowen's detective novels developed the character of the fictional character Joanne Kilbourn , a widowed mother, political analyst and university professor who occasionally finds herself embroiled in criminal investigations in various regions of Saskatchewan. Six of these stories were adapted from Canadian television as television films by Shaftesbury Films.

Her works have been translated into German, Dutch and Chinese to this day.

Gail Bowen also produced various plays. These include Dancing in Poppies , an adaptation of Beauty and the Beast , and The Tree, an adaptation of the Peter Pan theme, all of which premiered at the Globe Theater in Regina. The author also wrote The World According to Charlie D. , a radio play about a radio talk show host that CBC / Radio Canada aired in 2007. A sequel aired in August 2008 and was adopted by six other English-speaking countries.

Awards

For their crime novel A Colder Kind of Death was in 1995 with the Arthur Ellis Award excellent.

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Novels

• 1919: The Love Letters of George and Adelaide (1986) Western Producer Prairie Books
• Deadly Appearances (1990) Douglas & McIntyre
• Murder at the Mendel (1991, released in the United States as Love and murder ) Douglas & McIntyre
• The Wandering Soul Murders (1992) Douglas & McIntyre
• A Colder Kind of Death (1994, Arthur Ellis Award winner ) McClelland & Stewart
  • A murder like velvet and silk . From the American by Tatjana Kruse . Econ, Düsseldorf 1998, ISBN 3-612-25232-1 .
• A Killing Spring (1996) McClelland & Stewart
  • The campus murder . From the American by Tatjana Kruse. Econ-und-List-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Munich 1999, ISBN 3-612-25239-9 .
• Verdict in Blood (1998) McClelland & Stewart
  • The Verdict. Translated from the English by Tatjana Kruse, Ullstein, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-548-24985-X .
• Burying Ariel (2000) McClelland & Stewart
• The Glass Coffin (2002) McClelland & Stewart
  • The glass coffin . From the Canadian English by Klaus Timmermann and Ulrike Wasel, Berliner Taschenbuch-Verlag, Berlin 2005, ISBN 3-8333-0329-8 .
• The Last Good Day (2004) McClelland & Stewart
• The White Bear (2005) McClelland & Stewart
• The Endless Knot (2006) McClelland & Stewart
• The Brutal Heart (2008) McClelland & Stewart
• The Nesting Dolls (2010) McClelland & Stewart
• Love You to Death (2010) Orca Book Publishers - Rapid Reads
• One Fine Day You're Gonna Die (2010) Orca Book Publishers - Rapid Reads
• The Shadow Killer (2011) Orca Book Publishers - Rapid Reads
• Kaleidoscope (2012) McClelland & Stewart
• The Thirteenth Rose (2013) Orca Book Publishers - Rapid Reads
• The Gifted (2013) McLelland & Stewart

Plays

• Dancing in Poppies (1993)
• Beauty and the Beast (1993)
• The Tree (1994)

Individual evidence

1. ^ Contemporary Authors . New Revision Series, vol. 135, pp. 42-44. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005
2. ↑ COLIN BOYD, KAREN GRANDY: Gail Bowen ( English, French ) In: The Canadian Encyclopedia . Retrieved August 21, 2016.
3. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0100840/
4. ↑ www.banffcentre.ca ( Memento of the original from July 23, 2012 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. 
5. ↑ http://www.cbc.ca/gallery/guide.html BC Saskatchewan online program guide (2007)
6. ↑ CBC WorldPlay 2008 Schedule