Nationality United Kingdom TV shows Shetland Role Writer | Name Ann Cleeves Genre Crime | |
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Notable awards Duncan Lawrie Dagger 2006 Books Raven Black, Red Bones, Blue Lightning, The Crow Trap, Hidden Depths Similar People Brenda Blethyn, David Leon, Jon Morrison, Virginia Kantra, Paul Ritter Profiles | ||
Nominations Dagger in the Library | ||
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Ann Cleeves (born 1954) is a British crime-writer. In 2006 she won the inaugural Duncan Lawrie Dagger, the richest crime-writing prize in the world, for her novel Raven Black. Cleeves studied English at Sussex University but dropped out. She then took up various jobs including cook, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She lives in Whitley Bay, and is married with two daughters.
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The Vera Stanhope novels have been dramatized as the TV detective series Vera and the Jimmy Perez novels as the series Shetland.
In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sunderland. In 2015, Cleeves was the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival & the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library UK Crime Writers' Association award for an author's body of work in British libraries (UK)