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Wilson, Robert 1957–
PERSONAL:
Born 1957; married. Education: Graduated from Oxford University, 1979.
ADDRESSES:
Home— Portugal.
CAREER:
Writer. Has worked in shipping and advertising in London, England, and trading in West Africa.
AWARDS, HONORS:
Gold Dagger award for best novel, Crime Writers Association, 1999, for A Small Death in Lisbon.
WRITINGS:
NOVELS
A Small Death in Lisbon, HarperCollins (London, England), 1999, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2000.
The Company of Strangers, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2001.
"BRUCE MEDWAY" SERIES; NOVELS
Instruments of Darkness, HarperCollins (London, England), 1994, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2003.
The Big Killing, HarperCollins (London, England), 1996, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2003.
Blood Is Dirt, HarperCollins (London, England), 1997, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2004.
A Darkening Stain, HarperCollins (London, England), 1998, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2004.
"JAVIER FALCON" SERIES; NOVELS
The Blind Man of Seville, Harcourt (New York, NY), 2003.
The Vanished Hands, Harcourt (Orlando, FL), 2004, also published as Th British crime writer (born 1957) Robert Wilson Robert Wilson (born 1957) is a British crime writer[1] currently resident in Portugal. He is the son of an RAF fighter pilot, and has a degree in English from Oxford. Wilson is the author of the Bruce Medway series, set in and around Benin, West Africa, and the Javier Falcón series, set largely in Seville, Spain. He is also the author of the espionage novelThe Company of Strangers and A Small Death In Lisbon, which consists of a historically split narrative, and won the CWAGold Dagger in 1999. He was shortlisted for the same award again in 2003 for The Blind Man of Seville, the first in the Javier Falcón series. The second novel in the series, The Silent and the Damned (titled: The Vanished Hands in the United States), won the 2006 Gumshoe Award for Best European Crime Novel, presented by Mystery Ink. The Robert Wilson has written thirteen novels including the Bruce Medway noir series set in West Africa and two Lisbon books with WW2 settings the first of which, A Small Death in Lisbon, won the CWA Gold Dagger in 1999 and the International Deutsche Krimi prize in 2003. He has written four psychological crime novels set in Seville, with his Spanish detective, Javier Falcón. Two of these books (The Blind Man of Seville and The Silent and the Damned) were filmed and broadcast on Sky Atlantic as ‘Falcón’ in 2012. A film of the fourth Falcón book was released in Spain in 2014 under the title La Ignorancia de la Sangre. Capital Punishment, the first novel in his latest series set in London and featuring kidnap consultant, Charles Boxer, was published in 2013 and was nominated for the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger. This was followed by You Will Never Find Me in 2014. The third book in the series, Stealing People, will be published in 2015.•
Robert Wilson (crime novelist)
Born 1957 (age 67–68)
Stanford, Kent, EnglandOccupation Novelist Nationality British Alma mater University of Oxford Genre Crime •
Robert Wilson
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