Giles Blunt

Giles Blunt (born 1952 in Windsor , Ontario ) is a Canadian thriller writer .

biography

Giles Blunt's parents emigrated after the Second World War, from Warwickshire in England to Canada. The family first lived in the small town of Amherstburg in southwest Ontario and moved to North Bay when he was ten years old . The city on Lake Nipissing in northeastern Ontario serves as a template for Algonquin Bay , the setting for Blunt's crime novels about his protagonist Detective John Cardinal.

After high school, he studied English literature at the University of Toronto in Mississauga (graduated in 1975). He published poetry, wrote an unpublishable avant-garde novel. In 1980 he moved to New York , where he lived for 22 years. He lives in Toronto today .

reception

Blunt worked on scripts for the television series Night Heat and Street Legal , wrote the pilot The Smiling Mortician for the series Diamonds and, with Robert Nathan, an episode of Law & Order . His first novel, Cold Eye , was made into a film by Alain Jessua under the title Les couleurs du diable . The Franco-Italian production, the director's tenth feature film, premiered in 1997. The Canadian broadcaster CTV adapted the John Cardinal series for television and aired a first six-part season in 2017 based on the novel Forty Words for Sorrow .

Awards

• 2000: Silver Dagger of the British Crime Writers' Association for Forty Words for Sorrow (German Frozen Souls)
• 2004: Arthur Ellis Award - Category Best Novel by Crime Writers of Canada for The Delicate Storm (German Bloody Ice)
• 2013: Arthur Ellis Award - Crime Writers of Canada Best Novel category for Until the Night

Works

Individual works

• Cold Eye . Arbor House, New York 1989, ISBN 1-557-10047-0 .
  • Attention. roman . Droemer Knaur Verlag, Munich 1990. ISBN 3-426-01838-1 .
• No such creature. A novel . Henry Holt Books, New York 2009, ISBN 978-0-8050-8062-9 .
  • Innocent lambs . Knaur, Munich 2009, ISBN 978-3-426-50562-5 .
• Breaking Lorca . Random House, Toronto 2009, ISBN 978-0-307-35701-4 .

John Cardinal series

• Forty Words for Sorrow . Putnam, New York 2001, ISBN 0-399-14752-7 .
  • Frozen souls . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2004. ISBN 3-426-62791-4 .
• The Delicate Storm . Seal Books, Toronto 2002, ISBN 0-7704-2939-4 .
  • Bloody ice . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2005. ISBN 3-426-19662-X .
• Black Fly Season . Putnam, New York 2005, ISBN 0-399-15255-5 .
  • Cold moon . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2006. ISBN 3-426-19663-8 .
• By The Time You Read This, Henry Holt Books, New York 2006, ISBN 0-8050-8061-9 .
  • Icy heart . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2007. ISBN 3-426-19757-X .
• Crime Machine . Random House, Toronto 2010, ISBN 978-0-6793-1433-2 .
  • Ice murder . Droemer Knaur, Munich 2011. ISBN 978-3-426-19914-5 .

Audio books

• Cold moon . Lagato Verlag eK, Leipzig 2006, ISBN 978-3-938956-04-5 (8 CDs, 625 min., Read by Olaf Pessler ).
• Icy heart . Lagato Verlag eK, Leipzig 2007, ISBN 978-3-938956-31-1 (6 CDs 443 min., Read by Olaf Pessler ).
• Frozen souls . AME Hören, Berg 2007, ISBN 978-3-938046-73-9 (6 CDs, 442 min., Read by Olaf Pessler ).
• Bloody ice . AME Hören, Berg 2009, ISBN 978-3-938046-87-6 (6CDs, 481 min., Read by Olaf Pessler ).
• Ice murder . Lübbe Audio, Cologne 2011, ISBN 978-3-785745-81-6 (6CDs, 429 min., Read by Olaf Pessler ).

Web links

• Giles Blunt in the Internet Movie Database (English)
• Literature by and about Giles Blunt in the catalog of the German National Library
• Author's website
• Crimefactory , Oct. 27, 2003 (English)