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Reginald Hill

レジナルド・ヒル

Rejinarudo Hiru

Pen Names: Patrick Ruell（Used as pseudonym）, Dick Morland（Used as pseudonym）, Charles Underhill（Used as pseudonym）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1936-04-03 （West Hartlepool）
Died
2012-01-12 （Ravenglass, Cumbria） age 75
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
West Hartlepool, England → Carlisle, England → Oxford, England → Doncaster, England → Ravenglass, Cumbria, England

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Teacher, Senior lecturer
Active Years
1970-2011
Affiliations
Doncaster College of Education
Memberships
Detection Club (inducted 1978), Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL, 1999)
Nominations
Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award 2009 shortlist (A Cure for All Diseases)

Education

Carlisle Grammar School
English
Period: 1940年代後半-1955年
Year of Graduation: 1955
Country: England
Excelled in English after passing eleven plus exam
St Catherine's College, Oxford
Faculty of English
Degree: BA
Period: 1957-1960
Year of Graduation: 1960
Country: United Kingdom
Studied English
Doncaster College of Education
Period: 1960年代-1980年
Country: England
Senior lecturer for many years

Awards

Gold Dagger
1990
Work: Bones and Silence
Organization: British Crime Writers' Association
Result: Winner
Diamond Dagger
1995
Category: Lifetime Achievement
Organization: British Crime Writers' Association
Result: Winner
Short Story Dagger
1997
Work: On the Psychiatrist's Couch
Organization: British Crime Writers' Association
Result: Winner
Barry Award
1999
Work: On Beulah Height
Category: Best Novel
Organization: Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine
Result: Winner
Macavity Award
2001
Work: A Candle for Christmas
Category: Best Short Story
Organization: Mystery Readers International
Result: Winner
Barry Award
2011
Work: The Woodcutter
Category: Best British Novel
Organization: Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine
Result: Winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

A Clubbable Woman

1970 Crime fiction

First Dalziel and Pascoe novel involving a murder at a rugby club

Detective duoPolice procedural

Bones and Silence

1990 Crime fiction

Gold Dagger winner

Shakespearean allusions

On Beulah Height

1998 Crime fiction

Barry Award winner

The Woodcutter

2010 Crime fiction

Late work, Barry Award winner

Bibliography

  • A Clubbable Woman (1970)
  • An Advancement of Learning (1971)
  • Ruling Passion (1973)
  • An April Shroud (1975)
  • A Pinch of Snuff (1978)
  • A Killing Kindness (1980)
  • Deadheads (1983)
  • Exit Lines (1984)
  • Child's Play (1987)
  • Underworld (1988)
  • Bones and Silence (1990)
  • One Small Step (1990)
  • Recalled to Life (1992)
  • Pictures of Perfection (1994)
  • The Wood Beyond (1995)
  • Asking for the Moon (1996)
  • On Beulah Height (1998)
  • Arms and the Women (1999)
  • Dialogues of the Dead (2002)
  • Death's Jest-Book (2003)
  • Good Morning, Midnight (2004)
  • The Death of Dalziel (2007)
  • A Cure for All Diseases (2008)
  • Midnight Fugue (2009)
  • Blood Sympathy (1993)
  • Born Guilty (1995)
  • Killing the Lawyers (1997)
  • Singing the Sadness (1999)
  • The Roar of the Butterflies (2008)
  • Fell of Dark (1971)
  • The Castle of the Demon (1971)
  • A Fairly Dangerous Thing (1972)
  • Red Christmas (1972)
  • Heart Clock (1973)
  • Death Takes a Low Road (1974)
  • A Very Good Hater (1974)
  • Albion! Albion! (1974)
  • Beyond the Bone (1975)
  • Another Death in Venice (1976)
  • Captain Fantom (1978)
  • The Forging of Fantom (1979)
  • Pascoe's Ghost and Other Brief Chronicles of Crime (1979)
  • The Spy's Wife (1980)
  • Who Guards a Prince? (1982)
  • Traitor's Blood (1983)
  • Guardians of the Prince (1983)
  • No Man's Land (1985)
  • The Long Kill (1986)
  • There Are No Ghosts in the Soviet Union and Other Stories (1987)
  • The Collaborators (1987)
  • Death of a Dormouse (1987)
  • Dream of Darkness (1989)
  • Brother's Keeper (1992)
  • The Only Game (1993)
  • The Stranger House (2005)
  • The Woodcutter (2010)

Adaptations

  • Dalziel and Pascoe (BBC TV series)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Various structural devices like non-chronological orderPastiche of Jane Austen or other worksCentral organizing elements from art or literature
Recurring Motifs
Yorkshire detectives Dalziel, Pascoe, WieldMoral ambiguities in crime solving

Health

  • brain tumour
    2011-2012
    Cause of death

Legacy

Renowned English crime writer best known for the Dalziel and Pascoe series, winner of CWA Diamond Dagger for lifetime achievement.

In Popular Culture

  • Adapted into BBC TV series Dalziel and Pascoe starring Warren Clarke

Quotes

  • I still recall with delight as a teen-ager making the earth-shaking discovery that many of the great "serious novelists," classical and modern, were as entertaining and interesting as the crime-writers I already loved. But it took another decade of maturation to reverse the equation and understand that many of the crime writers I had decided to grow out of were still as interesting and entertaining as the "serious novelists" I now revered.
    Source: Colloquium on Crime (1986)

Trivia

  • Father was professional footballer Reg Hill
  • Married to Patricia Ruell from 1960 until his death
  • Inducted into the Detection Club in 1978
  • Retired from teaching in 1980 to write full-time