C. J. Sansom
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C. J. Sansom is an English writer of crime novels.
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[edit] Life
Christopher Sansom was born in 1952 and educated at the University of Birmingham, where he took a BA and then a PhD in history. After working in a variety of jobs, he decided to retrain as a solicitor. He practised for a while in Sussex as a lawyer for the disadvantaged, then he quit in order to work full-time as a writer.
[edit] Work
He came to prominence with his series set in the reign of Henry VIII in the 16th century, whose main character is the hunchbacked lawyer Matthew Shardlake. Shardlake works on commission initially from Thomas Cromwell in Dissolution and Dark Fire and then Thomas Cranmer in Sovereign and Revelation.
The BBC have commissioned an adaptation of Dissolution with the actor Kenneth Branagh set to star as Shardlake. The rest of the Shardlake books are expected to follow. C. J. Sansom has been consulted on the series, which is in the final stages of negotiation.[citation needed].
He has also written Winter in Madrid, a thriller set in Spain in 1940 in the aftermath of the Spanish Civil War.
[edit] Awards
Dark Fire won the 2005 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, awarded by the Crime Writers' Association (CWA). Sansom himself was "Very Highly Commended" in the 2007 CWA Dagger in the Library award, for the Shardlake series.[1]
[edit] Bibliography
[edit] Matthew Shardlake Series
- Dissolution (2003), ISBN 1-4050-0542-4
- Dark Fire (2004), ISBN 1-4050-0544-0
- Sovereign (2006), ISBN 1-4050-5048-9
- Revelation (2008) ISBN 1-4050-9272-2
[edit] Other Novels
- Winter in Madrid (2006), ISBN 1-4050-0546-7
[edit] Reviews
- Schoolboy rivalries in the Spanish civil war A review of Winter in Madrid, in Telegraph, 26.2.2006
- A wherry across the Thames A review of Dark Fire, by Stella Duffy, in The Guardian, 6.11.2004
- Spanish Civil War, stripped of Hemingway's romance A review of Winter in Madrid, by Katherine Bailey, in The Philadelphia Enquirer, 20.1.2008
- Revelation A review of "Revelation", by Christina Hardyment, in Times Online, 29.3.2008
[edit] References
- ^ the CWA Dagger in the Library 2007 – C.J. Sansom is Very Highly Commended.
This article about a novelist from the United Kingdom is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by expanding it.| Novels by C. J. Sansom | |
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| Matthew Shardlake series: | Dissolution | Dark Fire | Sovereign | Revelation |
| Standalone novels: | Winter in Madrid |
