Ian Hamilton (Author)
Ian Hamilton (born August 24, 1946 in Toronto , Canada ) is a Canadian crime novelist .
Hamilton worked as a journalist before working for the Canadian government and as a businessman. He traveled a lot on business, especially to Asia. Today Ian Hamilton lives with his wife in Burlington , Ontario . It has been nominated for several awards and received very positive reviews in the press. Its publishers are the House of Anansi Press and Spiderline in Toronto. So far, his works have only been translated into German and have been published by Verlag Kein & Aber (Zurich) and Berlin Verlag Krug & Schadenberg (from volume 5 of the Ava Lee series).
For his novel The Water Rat of Wanchai , he received the 2012 Arthur Ellis Award ( "Arthur" ) from the Canadian crime writers' association. The novel marks the beginning of a crime series about the Chinese-Canadian agent Ava Lee.
Novels
- The Ava Lee crime novels
- 2011: The Water Rat of Wanchai. Toronto, ISBN 978-0-88784-251-1
- English: The water rat from Wanchai. An Ava Lee crime thriller. Translated from the English by Simone Jakob. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2011, ISBN 978-3-03-695605-3
- 2011: The Disciple of Las Vegas. Toronto, ISBN 978-0-88784-252-8
- English: The Disciple of Las Vegas . Detective novel. Translated from the English by Simone Jakob. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2012, ISBN 978-3-03-695617-6
- 2011: The Wild Beasts of Wuhan. Toronto, ISBN 978-0-88784-253-5
- English: The Wild Beasts of Wuhan. An Ava Lee crime thriller. Translated from the English by Simone Jakob. Kein & Aber, Zurich 2013, ISBN 978-3-0369-5618-3
- 2012: The Red Pole of Macau. Toronto, ISBN 978-0-88784-254-2
- 2013: The Scottish Banker of Surabaya. Toronto, ISBN 978-1-77089-234-7 .
- English: The Scottish banker from Surabaya. An Ava Lee novel. From the American English by Andrea Krug. Verlag Krug & Schadenberg, Berlin 2018, ISBN 978-3-95917-013-0
- 2017: The Two Sisters of Borneo. Toronto, ISBN 978-1-77089-244-6 .
- English: The two sisters from Borneo. An Ava Lee novel. Publishing house Krug & Schadenberg, Berlin 2019
Web links
- Literature by and about Ian Hamilton (author) in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short author profile at No & But
Individual evidence
- ↑ 2012 Arthur Ellis Award Winners , accessed on May 11, 2013.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Hamilton, Ian |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Canadian crime writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 24, 1946 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Toronto , Canada |