Kerry Greenwood

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Kerry Greenwood while signing, October 2009

Kerry Greenwood (born June 17, 1954 in Maribyrnong City , Australia ) is a lawyer and writer who is best known for crime fiction and historical novels.

Life

Greenwood grew up in a suburb of the Melbourne metropolis . She studied law with a degree and then worked as a legal advisor for Victoria Legal Aid, among other things as a "duty solicitor". Since, according to her own statements, she would have to publish three books a year in order to earn a living from them, she has never completely given up this job.

With a passion for literature, she became a writer in her second job, who published historical novels and crime fiction as well as fantasy with high productivity. She has been awarded Australian literary prizes for children's and youth literature as well as for crime novels for numerous novels. The most important to be mentioned is the Ned Kelly Award 2003 for her life's crime thriller.

Her most successful series about the fictional upper class lady and detective Phryne Fisher, who lived in the 1920s, was filmed in several seasons for Australian television. The series Miss Fisher's Mysterious Murder Cases has also been dubbed in German. The figure corresponds roughly to the Lord Peter Wimsey novels by the Englishwoman Dorothy Sayers or the investigator figures in Agatha Christie . She emphasizes that her everyday legal practice is hardly able to add anything to her literary crime thriller plots.

Greenwood lives and works in the Melbourne area.

Awards

  • Aurealis Award for Excellence in Australian Speculative Fiction, Young Adult Division, Best Novel 1996 for The Broken Wheel
  • Children's Book Council of Australia Book of the Year Award, Book of the Year: Younger Readers, 2002: Special honor for A Different Sort of Real: The Diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919
  • Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2002: 1st place for The Three-Pronged Dagger
  • Davitt Award, Best Young Fiction Book, 2003: Nomination for The Wandering Icon
  • Davitt Award, Best Adult Novel, 2003: Nomination for Murder in Montparnasse: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
  • Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Lifetime Achievement, 2003
  • Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: Shortlist for Heavenly Pleasures: A Corinna Chapman Novel
  • Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2005: Shortlist for Queen of the Flowers: A Phryne Fisher Mystery
  • New South Wales Premier's Literary Awards , Patricia Wrightson Prize for Children's Books, 2006: Shortlist for Journey to Eureka
  • Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2006: 1st place for Heavenly Pleasures: A Corinna Chapman Novel
  • Davitt Award, Readers' Choice Award, 2007: 1st place for Devil's Food
  • Ned Kelly Award for Crime Writing, Best Novel, 2008: Nomination for Trick or Treat

Works

Phryne Fisher cycle
  • Cocaine Blues . 1989.
  • Flying Too High . 1990.
  • Murder on the Ballarat Train . 1991.
  • Death at Victoria Dock . 1992.
  • The Green Mill Murder (1993)
  • Blood And Circuses (1994)
  • Ruddy Gore (1995)
  • Urn Burial (1996)
  • Raisins and Almonds (1997)
  • Death Before Wicket (1999)
  • Away With the Fairies (2001)
  • Murder in Montparnasse (2002)
  • The Castlemaine Murders (2003)
  • Queen of the Flowers (2004)
  • Death By Water (2005)
  • Murder in the Dark (2006)
  • Murder on a Midsummer Night (2008)
  • Dead Man's Chest (2010)
  • Unnatural Habits (2012)
  • Murder and Mendelssohn (2013)
omnibus
  • The Phryne Fisher Mysteries . Pulp Fiction Press, Brisbane 2003 (content: Cocaine Blues , Flying Too High )
  • The honorable Phryne Fisher returns. Slip into murder and mayhem with unflappable Phryne . Allen & Unwin, Crows Nest 2012 (Contents: Cocaine Blues , Flying too high , Murder on the Ballarat Train ).
  • A Question of Death. An illustrated Prhyne Fisher Treasury . Poisoned Penn Press, Scottsdale, Ariz. 2008 (Content: Hotel splendid. - The voice is Jacob's voice. - Puttin 'on the Ritz. - The body in the library. - The miracle of St. Mungo. - Overheard on a balcony. - The hours of Juana the Mad. - Death shall be dead.- Carnival.- The Camberwell wonder.- Come, sable night.)
Corinna Chapman cycle
  • Earthly Delights . 2004.
  • Heavenly pleasures . 2005.
  • Devil's Food . 2006.
  • Trick or Treat . 2007.
  • Forbidden Fruit . 2009.
  • Cooking the Books . 2011.
Stormbringer trilogy

The fantasy novels The Broken Wheel, Whaleroad, Cave Rats and Feral are prequels to the Stormbringer trilogy. Characters in Stormbringer relate to events in these books but are otherwise independent.

  1. The Rat and the Raven . 2005.
  2. Lightning Nest . 2006.
  3. Ravens Rising . 2006.
Novels for children and young people, mostly in the fantasy genre
  • The Wandering Icon (1992)
  • The Childstone Cycle (1994)
  • Quest (1996)
  • The Broken Wheel (1996)
  • Whaleroad (1996)
  • Cave Rats (1997)
  • Feral (1998)
  • Alien Invasions (2000) (together with Shannah Jay and Lucy Sussex, edited by Paul Collins and Meredith Costain)
  • A different sort of real: the diary of Charlotte McKenzie, Melbourne 1918-1919 (2001), again under the title The Deadly Flu 2012
  • The Three-Pronged Dagger (2002)
  • Danger Do Not Enter (2003)
  • The Long Walk (2004)
  • Journey to Eureka (2005)
  • Out of the Black Land (2010)
Essays
  • Cassandra (1995)
  • Electra (1996)
  • Medea (1997)
  • On Murder (2000)
  • On Murder 2 (2002)
  • Tamam Shud: The Somerton Man Mystery (2012)

Film adaptations

The popular character Phryne Fisher was filmed for Australian television as Miss Fisher's Mysterious Murder TV series. The first season was filmed in the city and region of Melbourne in 2011 and aired on Channel ABC1 on February 24, 2012. A second season was ordered in August 2012 and shot from February 2013.

Web links

Single receipts

  1. ↑ a b Author interview: Kerry Greenwood , Sydney Writers' Center October 19, 2007, accessed January 8, 2014
  2. ↑ On the couch with Kerry Greenwood August 14, 2003 , theage.com.au Interview with K. Greenwood, accessed January 8, 2014
  3. ↑ Sue Ryan Fazilleau "Kerry Greenwood's 'rewriting' of Agatha Christie", JASAL 7 (2007)
  4. ↑ Production company Every Cloud for the Phryne Fisher series ( memento of the original from March 15, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) 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. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.everycloudproductions.com.au
personal data
SURNAME Greenwood, Kerry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Australian writer
DATE OF BIRTH June 17, 1954
PLACE OF BIRTH Maribyrnong City , Australia