| Revision as of 18:18, 19 September 2012 editEsowteric (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Extended confirmed users, Rollbackers31,058 edits Null edit: Can someone try to get Roger Ellory in 2-way conversation or escalate this to CIO or AN/I? I've had enough.← Previous edit | Revision as of 18:21, 19 September 2012 edit undoDrmies (talk | contribs)Autopatrolled, Checkusers, Oversighters, Administrators407,770 edits →Published works: trim. there is already a list of published works; what could be here is verified prose commentaryNext edit → | ||
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| | accessdate = 2012-09-19}}</ref> ''Ghostheart'' was published in 2004 and ''A Quiet Vendetta'' in 2005. | | accessdate = 2012-09-19}}</ref> ''Ghostheart'' was published in 2004 and ''A Quiet Vendetta'' in 2005. His fourth novel ''City of Lies'' (2006) was shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller.<ref name="Dagger2007">{{cite web | ||
| In August 2006, Ellory's fourth novel ''City of Lies'' was released, and in the early part of 2007 it was shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller.<ref name="Dagger2007">{{cite web | |||
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| ⚫ | | accessdate = 2012-09-19}}</ref> ''A Quiet Belief In Angels'' was selected as one of the titles in the ] Bookclub 2008.<ref name="GuardianRichardAndJudy">{{cite web | ||
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| Ellory's fifth novel ''A Quiet Belief In Angels'' was published on 22 August 2007. It garnered the following quote from fellow crime fiction author ]: "A Quiet Belief In Angels is a beautiful and haunting book. This is a tour-de-force from RJ Ellory." | |||
| ⚫ | ''A Quiet Belief In Angels'' was selected as one of the titles in the ] Bookclub 2008.<ref name="GuardianRichardAndJudy">{{cite web | ||
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| ⚫ | | accessdate = 2012-09-19}}</ref> ''A Quiet Belief In Angels'' has sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies since its release, and has also been purchased for translation into a total of twenty-three languages. It was ranked third in the '']'' bestselling book list in the week of its review on TV. It was shortlisted for the ] for best British crime fiction 2008,<ref name="DeadlyPleasuresBarryAwards">{{cite web | ||
| | accessdate = 2012-09-19}}</ref> This was officially announced on 27 December 2007, and Ellory's book was reviewed on the ] ''Richard & Judy Show'' on 30 January 2008. The additional advertising and promotion associated with the show's shortlist introduced Ellory's work to a far wider audience. | |||
| ⚫ | ''A Quiet Belief In Angels'' has sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies since its release, and has also been purchased for translation into a total of twenty-three languages |
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| | accessdate = 2012-09-19}}</ref> the 7th Prix Du Polar Européen 2008 of the weekly French magazine '']'', ']''′s ''Crime Writing Prize 2008, and the Quebec Booksellers' Prize 2008.<ref name="OrionPublishingGroup" /> It won the Strand Magazine Thriller of the Year. | | accessdate = 2012-09-19}}</ref> the 7th Prix Du Polar Européen 2008 of the weekly French magazine '']'', ']''′s ''Crime Writing Prize 2008, and the Quebec Booksellers' Prize 2008.<ref name="OrionPublishingGroup" /> It won the Strand Magazine Thriller of the Year.{{cn}} It won ''Nouvel Observateur''{{'}}s inaugural Prix du Roman Noir in 2009.<ref name="PaperBlogPrixDuRomanNoir">{{cite web | ||
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| It was also selected for the final shortlist of the Nouvel Observateur's inaugural Prix du Roman Noir in 2009,<ref name="PaperBlogPrixDuRomanNoir">{{cite web | |||
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| accessdate = 2012-09-19}} {{Fr icon}}</ref><ref name="BibliobsAcceptanceSpeech">{{cite web | ||
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| | accessdate = 2012-09-19}} {{fr icon}}</ref> | | accessdate = 2012-09-19}} {{fr icon}}</ref> In October 2008 ''A Simple Act of Violence'' won Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year 2010.<ref name="GuardianTheakstons2010">{{cite web | ||
| In October 2008 Ellory's sixth book was released, entitled ''A Simple Act of Violence''; it went on to win Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year 2010.<ref name="GuardianTheakstons2010">{{cite web | |||
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| | accessdate = 2012-09-19}}</ref> Ellory's seventh book, ''The Anniversary Man'', was released on 3 September 2009. He has recently completed the screenplay for ''A Quiet Belief In Angels'', commissioned by ], Oscar-winning writer/director of '']''. | |||
| Ellory's eighth UK publication, ''Saints of New York'', was released in September 2010; his ninth, ''Bad Signs'', in October 2011; and his tenth, ''A Dark and Broken Heart'', in May 2012. | |||
| Between March and April 2012, Ellory released a trilogy of novellas making up the ebook-exclusive ''Three Days in Chicagoland'', focusing on the brutal murder of a young girl in ] in 1956, as told from three different viewpoints: ''The Sister'', ''The Cop'' and ''The Killer''. | Between March and April 2012, Ellory released a trilogy of novellas making up the ebook-exclusive ''Three Days in Chicagoland'', focusing on the brutal murder of a young girl in ] in 1956, as told from three different viewpoints: ''The Sister'', ''The Cop'' and ''The Killer''. | ||
| Ellory's eleventh title, ''The Devil and the River'', a 1974 murder investigation by a ] smalltown sheriff and ], John Gaines, will be released in 2013. | |||
| ==Awards== | ==Awards== | ||
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Roger Jon Ellory is a British thriller writer. He was born in June 1965 in Birmingham, England.
Personal life
Ellory lives in Birmingham in the United Kingdom. He cites Arthur Conan Doyle, Michael Moorcock, J. R. R. Tolkien and Stephen King as being among the people who influenced his writing. He is an avid fan of BookCrossing and apart from his work as an author, he is interested in music. He is currently a singer and guitar player with a band called The Whiskey Poets.
Ellory's father is unknown to him, having left the household before Ellory was born. He was raised by his mother and maternal grandmother, his maternal grandfather having drowned in 1957 in Wales. Ellory's mother died as a result of a pneumonic haemorrhage in late 1971, the victim of a pneumonia epidemic that killed a number of people in the West Midlands. Ellory was then sent to a number of different schools, and finally completed his education at Kingham Hill School in Oxfordshire, a school established by the Barings-Young banking family as a facility for "wayward and orphaned children".
Leaving this school at 16, Ellory returned to Birmingham where he pursued a diploma in graphic art and design at Bournville College of Art. After one year, Ellory's maternal grandmother died in April 1982 and Ellory dropped out of college, failing to secure any qualifications.
Controversy
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According to the Daily Telegraph and The New York Times, Ellory has used fake usernames to write glowing reviews of his own works at Amazon.com, while writing bad reviews of other authors' books. Using one of his pseudonyms, "Nicodemus Jones", Ellory described his novel "A Quiet Belief in Angels" as a "modern masterpiece". The review on Amazon reads: "All I will say is that there are paragraphs and chapters that just stopped me dead in my tracks . . . it really is a magnificent book". In addition to praising his own work, he left negative reviews for books by fellow novelists Stuart MacBride and Mark Billingham.
In the Daily Telegraph, Ellory issued this public apology:
"The recent reviews – both positive and negative – that have been posted on my amazon accounts are my responsibility and my responsibility alone. I wholeheartedly regret the lapse of judgment that allowed personal opinions to be disseminated in this way and I would like to apologise to my readers and the writing community."
Published works
His first novel to be accepted for publication, Candlemoth, was published in 2003 and was shortlisted for the CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award that same year. Ghostheart was published in 2004 and A Quiet Vendetta in 2005. His fourth novel City of Lies (2006) was shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller. A Quiet Belief In Angels was selected as one of the titles in the Richard & Judy Bookclub 2008. A Quiet Belief In Angels has sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies since its release, and has also been purchased for translation into a total of twenty-three languages. It was ranked third in the Sunday Times bestselling book list in the week of its review on TV. It was shortlisted for the Barry Award for best British crime fiction 2008, the 7th Prix Du Polar Européen 2008 of the weekly French magazine Le Point, 'Le Nouvel Observateur′s Crime Writing Prize 2008, and the Quebec Booksellers' Prize 2008. It won the Strand Magazine Thriller of the Year. It won Nouvel Observateur's inaugural Prix du Roman Noir in 2009. In October 2008 A Simple Act of Violence won Theakston's Crime Novel of the Year 2010.
Between March and April 2012, Ellory released a trilogy of novellas making up the ebook-exclusive Three Days in Chicagoland, focusing on the brutal murder of a young girl in Chicago in 1956, as told from three different viewpoints: The Sister, The Cop and The Killer.
Awards
In 2003, Ellory's debut novel Candlemoth was shortlisted for the CWA Steel Dagger for Best Thriller. This followed with his fourth book City of Lies being shortlisted for the same award in 2007.
A Quiet Belief in Angels, his fifth title, was shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best British Crime Fiction 2008. The novel was also shortlisted for the Association 813 Trophy, the 7th Prix Du Polar Europeen Du Point, the Mystery Booksellers of America Dilys Award, the Southern Independent Booksellers' Award 2010 and the Prix des Libraires Du Quebec Laureat 2009. It went on to win the Inaugural Roman Noir Nouvel Observateur Prize in 2009, the Best Thriller 2009 by New York's Strand Magazine, along with the Livre De Poche Award and the USA National Indie Excellence Award for Best Mystery, both in 2010.
In 2010, A Quiet Vendetta won the Prix Des Libraires Du Quebec Laureat. Additionally, it won the Villenueve les Avignon Literary Festival Readers' Prize in 2010 and the St. Maur Prix Polar in 2011.
A Simple Act of Violence was shortlisted for the Barry Award for Best British Crime Fiction 2009 and won the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award for 2010.
Works
- Candlemoth (2003) ISBN 0-7528-5666-9
- Ghostheart (2004) ISBN 0-7528-6059-3
- A Quiet Vendetta (2005) ISBN 0-7528-6060-7
- City of Lies (2006) ISBN 0-7528-7366-0
- A Quiet Belief in Angels (2007) ISBN 978-0-7528-7369-5
- A Simple Act of Violence (2008) ISBN 978-0-7528-9190-3
- The Anniversary Man (2009) ISBN 0-7528-9874-4
- Saints of New York (2010) ISBN 978-1-4091-0474-2
- Bad Signs (2011) ISBN 978-1-4091-0476-6
- A Dark and Broken Heart (2012) ISBN 978-1-4091-2414-6
- The Devil and the River (2013) ISBN 978-1-4091-2417-7
References
- ^ Staff (2008). "R.J. Ellory - Biography". R.J. Ellory Publications Ltd. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ^ Staff. "Ellory, R.J. - Orion Books". Orion Publishing Group. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ^ Hough, Andrew (02 Sep 2012). "RJ Ellory: detected, crime writer who faked his own glowing reviews". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - Streitfeld, David (04 Sep 2012). "His Biggest Fan Was Himself". The New York Times. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) - ^ Staff (2003). "The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2003". Crime Writers Association. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ^ Staff (2007). "The CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger 2007". Crime Writers Association. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- Crown, Sarah (27 December 2007). "Richard and Judy unveil their 2008 Book Club". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ^ Gardner, Barry. "Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine: Barry Awards". Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- ^ Staff (31 March 2009). "Prix du roman noir Nouvel Obs/BibliObs : Férey et Ellory lauréats". Paperblog: Magazine Culture. Retrieved 19 September 2012. Template:Fr icon
- Staff (01 April 2009). "R.J. Ellory: «Je suis anglais... je suis désolé» (with acceptance speech)". Le nouvel Observateur. Retrieved 2012-09-19.
{{cite web}}: Check date values in:|date=(help) Template:Fr icon - ^ Flood, Alison (23 July 2010). "RJ Ellory wins crime novel of the year award". The Guardian. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- Staff (2010). "Indie Excellence Awards 2010 Book Award Winners". National Indie Excellence Awards. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
- Staff. "Book awards: Libraires du Québec (Lauréat Roman québécois, 2010)". LibraryThing. Retrieved 19 September 2012.
External links
- Official website
- Shots Crime and Thriller Ezine: ROGER JON ELLORY on A Quiet Vendetta (2005)
- Shots Crime and Thriller Ezine: An interview with Roger Jon Ellory.
- La Clé des Langues: Ellory on crime stories