Name Colin Cotterill | Role Writer | |
 | ||
Nominations Barry Award for Best First Novel Books The Coroner's Lunch, Thirty‑Three Teeth, Anarchy and Old Dogs, Disco for the departed, Curse of the Pogo Stick | ||
Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, and the Jimm Juree crime novels set in southern Thailand.
Contents
Book review the woman who wouldn t die by colin cotterill
Biography
Colin Cotterill was born in London and trained as a teacher. He worked as a Physical Education instructor in Israel, a primary school teacher in Australia, a counselor for educationally handicapped adults in the US, and a university lecturer in Japan. More recently, Colin taught and trained teachers in Thailand and on the Burmese border. He spent several years in Laos, initially with UNESCO and wrote and produced a forty-programme language teaching series; English By Accident, for Thai national television.
Cotterill became involved in child protection in the region and set up an NGO in Phuket which he ran for the first two years. After two more years of study in child abuse issues, and one more stint in Phuket, he moved on to ECPAT, an international organisation combating child prostitution and pornography. He established their training program for caregivers.
During this time, Cotterill contributed regular columns for the Bangkok Post. His first novel, The Night Bastard, was published by Suk's Editions in 2000. The positive reaction to his novel prompted Cotterill to write full-time. His subsequent books include Evil in the Land Without (Asia Books December 2003), Pool and Its Role in Asian Communism (Asia Books, Dec 2005), The Coroner's Lunch (Soho Press. Dec 2004), Thirty Three Teeth (Aug 2005), Disco for the Departed (Aug 2006), Anarchy and Old Dogs (Aug 2007), Curse of the Pogo Stick (Aug 2008), The Merry Misogynist (Aug 2009), Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Aug 2010), and Slash and Burn (2011).
On 15 June 2009 Colin Cotterill received the Crime Writers' Association "Dagger in the Library" award for being "the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users".
Cotterill set up a project to send books to Lao children and sponsor trainee teachers. The "Books for Laos" programme elicits support from fans of the books and is administered purely on a voluntary basis. In 2016, he was directing his efforts toward the not-for-profit publishing project in Laos, Big Brother Mouse, founded by Sasha Alyson.
Since 1990, Cotterill has been a regular cartoonist for national publications. A Thai language translation of his cartoon scrapbook, Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket was published by Matichon in May 2004. On 4 April 2004, an illustrated bilingual column cycle logical was launched in Matichon's weekly news magazine. These have been published in book form.