William Deverell

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William Deverell in 2005 in Costa Rica in a campaign for libraries

William Herbert Deverell (born March 4, 1937 ) is a Canadian writer , political activist and criminal law attorney.

Life

In his early years, William Deverell worked as a journalist for the Canadian press in Montreal and the Vancouver Sun for seven years . While attending law school at the University of Saskatchewan , he worked as an evening editor for the Saskatoon Star-Phoenix . In his capacity as an attorney, he has advised over a thousand criminal cases, including thirty murder cases, in which he served as both defense counsel and prosecution counsel.

Deverell is now one of the best-known crime novelists in his native Canada . In 1998 and 2006 he received the Arthur Ellis Award for the best Canadian detective novel and the Dashiell Hammett Prize for the literary masterpiece of an author from North America in his novel Trail of Passion .

William Deverell's first novel, Needles , based on his experience as a criminal law attorney, won the $ 50,000 McClelland & Stewart Seal Award. Since his first work he has written another 15 novels.

He is also the author of a so-called true crime book , "A Life on Trial - the Case of Robert Frisbee," which was based on the case of a notorious murderer whom he once defended. He also published various articles in magazines and short stories .

Deverell's work eventually spanned several screenplays for television films, such as Mindfield (1990), Shellgame , the pilot of the CBC TV series Street Legal , and radio broadcasts for CBC Radio as part of its "Scales of Justice" series.

He is the founder and Honorary Director of the British Columbia Civil Liberties Association . In 1991/92 he graduated as an honorary professor in the department of creative writing at the University of Victoria . In 1994 he chaired the Canadian Writers' Association and in 1999 was a member of the Writers Guild of Canada, International Pen, Crime Writers of Canada.

William Deverell was the guest of honor at Canada's premier bloody words circle of honor and held the Best Canadian Crime Writer award at the Ontario Crime Festival .

His works have so far been translated into eight languages, but not into German.

He has lived on Pender Island , British Columbia , and Quepos , Costa Rica with his wife Tekla since 1977 . The couple have a son and a daughter. Daniel Deverell is a graphic artist and lecturer in New York , Tamara Deverell works as an art director with David Cronenberg, among others, and lives in Toronto .

plant

  • Needles . Little, Brown, Boston 1979
  • High crimes . St Martin's Press, New York 1981
  • The dance of Shiva . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1984
  • Platinum blues . British American Pub., Latham, NY 1988
  • Mindfield: a novel . British American Pub., Latham, NY 1989
  • Fatal cruise: the trial of Robert Frisbee . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1992
  • Kill all the lawyers: a novel . Random House of Canada, Toronto 1994
  • Street legal: the betrayal . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1995
  • Trial of passion . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1997
  • Slander . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 1999
  • The laughing falcon . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2001
  • Mind Games . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2003
  • April fool . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2005
  • Kill all the judges . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2008
  • Snow job . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2009
  • I'll see You in My Dreams . McClelland & Stewart, Toronto 2012

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ http://artsandscience.usask.ca/alumni/alumni9.php
  2. ↑ http://www.jrank.org/literature/pages/7700/William-Deverell.html
  3. ↑ Arthur Ellis Award ( Memento from December 13, 2010 in the Internet Archive )
  4. ↑ http://www.mcclelland.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=6943
  5. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0097886/
  6. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0090010/
personal data
SURNAME Deverell, William
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Deverell, William Herbert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Canadian writer and lawyer
DATE OF BIRTH March 4, 1937