James W. Nichol

James W. Nichol (born 1940 in Canada ) is a Canadian playwright and author . He currently lives in Stratford , Ontario .

After settling in his home country first as a dramatist had made a name he published in 2003 his first novel Midnight Cab (dt. Exposed ) which is based on a successful radio play of the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. James W. Nichol received the Arthur Ellis Award - Best First Novel from the Crime Writers of Canada (CWC) in 2003 and was nominated for the Gold Dagger of the British Crime Writers' Association .

Works

Dramas

• In memoriam (1962)
• Sweet home sweet (1967)
• Feast of the Dead (1967)
• The partnership (1970)
• Tub (1972)
• The house on Chestnut Street (1972)
• The book of Solomon Spring (1972)
• Sainte-Marie among the Hurons (1974)
• Sainte - Prisons (1977)
• Gwendoline (1978)
• Child (1979)
• The Murder at Blenheim Swamp (1980)
• Relative Delusions (1982)
• Sonny (1982)
• Relative strangers (1983)
• And when I Wake (1983)
• The three true loves of Jasmine Hoover (1986)
• The Reluctant Saint (1988)
• The stone angel (2002)

Novels

• Midnight Cab (2003)

→ German suspended . Knaur Taschenbuch Verlag, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-426-62828-7

• Transgression (2008)

→ dt. Despised . Goldmann, Munich 2007, ISBN 978-3-442-46418-0

• Death Spiral (2009)

Web links

• Literature by and about James W. Nichol in the catalog of the German National Library