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Val McDermid FRSE, FRSL (born the 4 Juin 1955) is a Scots crime writer, best kent fur her suspense novelles featurin Dr. Tony Hill.
Val McDermid | |
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Born | Kirkcaudy, Fife, Scotland | 4 Juin 1955
Naitionality | Scots |
Genre | Crime fiction |
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McDermid wis born intae a wirkin-cless family in Fife. She studied Inglis at St. Hilda's College, Oxford,[1] whaur she wis the furst scholart tae come frae a Scots state schuil.[2]
Efter graduatin she becam a jurnalist an began her leeterar career as a dramatist. She furthset her furst novelle, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery in 1987.[3]
She wis gien an honorary doctorate frae the Varsity o Sunderland in 2011.[4] She cofoondit the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival an the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, pairt o the Harrogate International Festivals. In 2016 she led a team o St. Hilda's alumnae tae win the Christmas University Challenge.[5]
In 2017, McDermid wis electit as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh[6] an a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature forby.[7]
As o 2009, she sponsors the McDermid Stand in Stark's Pairk, the groonds o Raith Rovers in Kirkcaldy. This wis tae honour her faither that wis a scoot fur the club.[8] A year efterhaund, she jynt the bourd o the club, an in 2014 her wabsteid became the team's sark sponsor.[9]
McDermid's scrievins faas intae fower series: Lindsay Gordon, Kate Brannigan, Tony Hill an Carol Jordan, an Inspector Karen Pirie. The Mermaids Singing, the furst beuk o the Hill/Jordan series, wan the Crime Writers' Association Gold Dagger awaird fur Best Crime Novel of the Year. The Hill/Jordan series haes been adaptit intae a telly series, kent as Wire in the Blood. Her novelles, particularly the Tony Hill beuks, is kenned fur thair graphic depictions o violence an tortur.
McDermid haes sayed Jacko Vance, a TV celebrity wi a saicret cravin fur tortur, murther an unnerage quines, that appeart in Wire in the Blood an twa later beuks, is based on her ain experience o spierin Jimmy Saville.[10]
McDermid considers her wirk tae be pairt o the tartain noir subgenre o Scots crime fiction.[11] As weel as scrievin novelles, McDermid contributes tae a wheen o British newspapers an aften braidcasts on BBC Radio 4 an BBC Radio Scotland.[12]
On 6 December 2012 a wumman flang ink ower McDermid durin a event at the Varsity o Sunderland.[13] McDermid wis pittin her name tae beuks, an a wumman askit her tae pit her name tae a Top of the Pops annual wi Jimmy Saville on the cover. Tho laith, McDermid pit her name tae the annual, efter that the wumman pulled oot a bottle o ink an flang it at her afore rinnin frae the room.[13] Nanetheless, McDermid vowed tae haud gaun wi her witterins.[14]
Sandra Botham, a 64-year-auld wumman frae the Hedon area o Sunderland, wis arreistit on suspicion o assaut.[14][15] Botham wis chairged wi common assaut on the 10 Julie 2013, [16] gat a 12-month community sentence wi owerins an wis gart pey £50 assythment an a £60 victim surchairge.[17] She wis gien a restrainin order baurin her frae contactin McDermid fur a undefined time period.[18] The Northern Echo reportit that Botham actit acause o McDermid's 1994 non-fiction book, A Suitable Job for a Woman, that Botham claimed mirkit her an her faimily.[19]
In 2010 McDermid, that is gay, wis bidin atween Northumberland an Manchester wi furthsetter Kelly Smith,[20] that she haed entered a civil pairtnership wi in 2006.[21] She foregane bade in Stockport an Northumberland wi three cats[22] and a border terrier dug. Syne early 2014 she haes bade in Stockport and Edinburgh.[23][24]
On 23 October 2016, McDermid waddit Jo Sharp, a professor o geographie at the Varsity o Glesga an McDermid's pairtner o twa year.[25][26]
In 2016, McDermid led a team o crime writers on quiz shaw Eggheads, beatin the Eggheads an winnin £14,000.[27]
McDermid is a radical feminist an socialist.[28][29] She haes pitten feminism intae some o her novelles.[30]
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