Rennie Airth
Rennie George Airth (born in South Africa in 1935 ) is a South African writer.
Airth worked as a foreign correspondent for the Reuters news agency before he became known from 1999 - after two less well-known novels in 1969 and 1981 - for a trilogy of crime novels set between 1921 and 1944 about Detective Inspector John Madden of Scotland Yard . The first volume in the trilogy, River of Darkness , was nominated for four prizes in 2000, including the Anthony Award and the Edgar , and received the most prestigious French crime prize, the Grand prix de littérature policière . Regardless of Airth's original intention to create a trilogy, other volumes have appeared on Detective Inspector John Madden.
Airth lives and works in Italy (as of autumn 2019).
Awards
- 2000: Grand prix de littérature policière for River of Darkness
Works
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Snatch! (1969)
- German: The snap. Roman , Molden, Vienna-Munich-Zurich 1970
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Once A Spy (1981)
- German: A spy with seven lives , joke, Bern-Munich-Vienna 1983, ISBN 3-502-55889-2
John Madden series
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River of Darkness (1999)
- German: night without a face. Roman , Goldmann, Munich 2000, ISBN 3-442-44917-0
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The Blood-Dimmed Tide (2003)
- German: places of darkness. Roman , Goldmann, Munich 2006, ISBN 978-3-442-45285-9
- The Dead of Winter (2009)
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The Reckoning (2014)
- German: Remembrance of the dead. Roman , Goldmann, Munich 2015, ISBN 978-3-442-48263-4
- The Death of Kings (2017)
- The Decent Inn of Death (2020) - ISBN 9780143134299
Web links
- Literature by and about Rennie Airth in the catalog of the German National Library
- Rennie Airth in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Airth, Rennie |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Airth, Rennie George (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | South African crime novel writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | 1935 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | South Africa |