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Denise Mina

でにーす・みな

Denīsu Mina

プロフィール

性別
女性
生誕
1966-08-21 （East Kilbride）
国籍
Scottish, British
言語
English
居住地歴
East Kilbride, Scotland → Paris, France → London, United Kingdom → The Hague, Netherlands → Bergen, Norway → Invergordon, Scotland → Glasgow, Scotland

経歴

職業
crime writer, playwright, comic book writer, TV presenter
活動期間
1996年〜2024年
所属
Glasgow Film Theatre Board of Trustees (2015-2021)

学歴

Orpington College
期間: 16歳時
国: United Kingdom
dropped out
Langside HE College
国: United Kingdom
University of Glasgow
Faculty of Law / Law
学位: LLB (Hons)
国: United Kingdom
awarded the Gilbert Forbes Medal for forensic science
Strathclyde University Law School
Law
学位: PhD（開始）
国: United Kingdom
Began PhD on The Ascription of Mental Illness to Female Offenders, where she wrote her first novel Garnethill

受賞歴

John Creasey Dagger for Best First Crime Novel
1998
対象作品: Garnethill
部門: Best First Crime Novel
主催: Crime Writers’ Association
結果: Winner
Honorary Doctor of Letters
2008
主催: Glasgow University
結果: Recipient
Martin Beck Award
2011
対象作品: The End of the Wasp Season
部門: Bästa till svenska översatta kriminalroman
主催: Svenska Deckarakademin
結果: Winner
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
2012
対象作品: The End of the Wasp Season
結果: Winner
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award
2013
対象作品: Gods and Beasts
結果: Winner
Gordon Burn Prize
2017
対象作品: The Long Drop
結果: Winner
McIlvanney Prize
2017
対象作品: The Long Drop
部門: Scottish Crime Novel of the Year
結果: Winner
Deutscher Krimi Preis
2020
対象作品: Gods and Beasts
部門: International crime writers
結果: Winner
Honorary Doctorate
2025
主催: University of Strathclyde
結果: Recipient

受賞・候補エディション

作品

代表作

Garnethill

1998年 Crime fiction

Debut novel featuring Maureen O’Donnell, a survivor of childhood sexual abuse.

sexual abusetraumarevenge

The Long Drop

2017年 True crime

Non-fiction novel about serial killer Peter Manuel's 1958 trial in Glasgow.

serial killertrialtrue crime

Conviction

2019年 Crime fiction

A crime investigation revolving around a podcast. Reese's Book Club Pick.

podcastsjusticedeception

Gods and Beasts

2012年 Crime fiction

Alex Morrow series novel.

corruptionfamilyviolence

The End of the Wasp Season

2010年 Crime fiction

Alex Morrow series.

全著作

  • Garnethill
  • Exile
  • Resolution
  • The Field of Blood
  • The Dead Hour
  • The Last Breath
  • Sanctum
  • Still Midnight
  • The End of the Wasp Season
  • Gods and Beasts
  • The Red Road
  • Blood, Salt, Water
  • Conviction
  • Confidence
  • The Long Drop
  • The Less Dead
  • Rizzio
  • The Second Murderer
  • Three Fires
  • Hellblazer
  • The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (comic adaptation)

翻案

  • The Field of Blood (BBC TV series, 2011)

作品の翻訳

  • The End of the Wasp Season (Swedish translation)
  • Gods and Beasts (German translation)

作風・主題

文体
Tartan NoirGlasgow-centric crime fictionsocially conscious crime writing
頻出モチーフ
social underclassserial killingsfemale perspectivesunderbelly of Glasgow

評価・遺産

Described as ‘crime writing royalty’, key figure in the rise of Tartan Noir. Multiple award winner across novels, plays, comics, and TV. Known for gritty Glasgow crime stories.

豆知識

  • Changed schools thirteen times due to frequent family moves.
  • Father was an engineer who served in the Merchant Navy.
  • Married in 2005 with two sons; eldest Fergus (b. 2003) had a life-limiting condition and died in 2017.
  • Worked in bars, cinema, meat factory, and as an auxiliary nurse.