2019.02.17 安-克利夫斯是一位犯罪作家

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Ann Cleeves is a crime writer best known for two series of novels, both of which have been adapted for television. Vera, for ITV, features her detective Vera Stanhope, and Shetland, for the BBC, focuses on DI Jimmy Perez, who works for the Shetland police.

Born in 1954, Ann grew up in Herefordshire and Devon. After secondary school she spent a year providing childcare for a family in London before reading English at the University of Sussex. She dropped out of her degree course, and by chance, was offered a job as assistant cook at the bird observatory in Fair Isle, despite not knowing how to cook, nor anything about birds. She met her husband Tim there, who came as a visiting bird watcher.

They spent four years on the tiny tidal island of Hilbre off the Wirral peninsula, where Ann started to write. Her debut novel was published in 1986 and she has published a book a year since then. Her first Shetland novel, Raven Black, appeared in 2006 and won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger, at the time the richest crime-writing prize in the world. Her second breakthrough came when a TV producer picked up a second-hand copy of one her novels featuring her dishevelled detective Vera Stanhope and decided it would make perfect prime-time viewing. In October 2017, Ann received the Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers’ Association, the highest honour in British crime writing, awarded by fellow crime authors. In 2018, she published the final of eight Shetland novels, and this autumn will see the publication of the first of a new Vera series set in Devon.

Her husband Tim died in December 2017. Ann lives in Whitley Bay, with her two daughters and six grandchildren nearby.

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安-克利夫斯是一位犯罪作家，以两个系列的小说而闻名，这两个系列的小说都被改编成了电视。ITV的《维拉》以她的侦探维拉-斯坦霍普为主角，而BBC的《设得兰》则侧重于为设得兰警察工作的吉米-佩雷斯警官。

安出生于1954年，在赫里福德郡和德文郡长大。中学毕业后，她在伦敦为一个家庭提供了一年的托儿服务，然后在苏塞克斯大学读英语。她从学位课程中退学，在一个偶然的机会下，她得到了一份在费尔岛的鸟类观察站担任助理厨师的工作，尽管她不知道如何做饭，也不了解鸟类。她在那里遇到了她的丈夫蒂姆，他是作为一个来访的观鸟者而来。

他们在威勒尔半岛上的希尔布雷小岛上度过了四年，安在那里开始写作。她的处女作于1986年出版，此后她每年都会出版一本书。她的第一部设得兰岛小说《乌鸦黑》于2006年出版，并赢得了邓肯-劳里匕首奖，这在当时是世界上最富有的犯罪写作奖。她的第二次突破是，一位电视制作人捡到了她的一部小说的二手版本，里面有她的衣衫不整的侦探薇拉-斯坦霍普，并认为这将成为完美的黄金时段观赏。2017年10月，安获得了犯罪学作家协会颁发的钻石匕首，这是英国犯罪学写作的最高荣誉，由犯罪学作家同行授予。2018年，她出版了8本设得兰岛小说的最后一本，今年秋天将出版以德文郡为背景的新维拉系列的第一部。

她的丈夫蒂姆于2017年12月去世。安住在惠特利湾，附近有她的两个女儿和六个孙子。

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