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| Name: | Bill Kirton |
| Joined: | 4 years ago |
| Country: | United Kingdom |
| Hometown: | Aberdeen |
| Life Story: | Before taking early retirement to become a full-time writer, Bill Kirton was a lecturer in French at the University of Aberdeen. His radio plays have been broadcast by the BBC and on the Australian BC. He has published four crime novels, Material Evidence, Rough Justice and The Darkness are set in today's Scotland and The Figurehead in Aberdeen in 1840. Three of his short stories were selected for the CWA’s annual anthologies in 1999, 2005 and 2007 and Love Hurts was chosen for the volume 'Best British Crime Stories' in 2010. His novels have also appeared in paperback editions in the USA (in 2008 and 2009) as part of a series called 'Bloody Brits'. Bill has also written and performed in revues at the Edinburgh Festival; written, directed and acted in stage and radio plays; and presented programmes on Grampian Television. He has been visiting artist at an American University on four different occasions, directing stage plays, giving classes on creative writing and theatre and translating three plays by Molière for public performance, one of which, a verse translation of Sganarelle, won a BCLA prize. He was awarded one of the first of the Royal Literary Fund's Writing Fellowships in Scotland and spent two years at the Robert Gordon University, two more at the University of Dundee and one at St Andrews. He co-wrote a chapter of Writing Matters, a report specially commissioned by the RLF to examine issues relating to literacy levels in Higher Education. He also co-wrote Just Write, a book aimed at helping students with their academic writing, which was published in 2006. Pearson commissioned him to write Brilliant Study Skills, which was published in 2010 and two more in the same series - Brilliant Essays and Brilliant Dissertations will also be appearing soon. You'll find his blog at: www.livingwritingandotherstuff.blogspot.com |
| Personal Website: | http://www.bill-kirton.co.uk |
| Favourite Authors: | David Mitchell, Michel Faber, and many more. |
| Favourite Stories: | Cloud Atlas, The Crimson Petal and the White, and all of Jane Austen and Flaubert. |
| Interesting: | Bill's sign is Leo. Bill has read 1 stories in the last 2 months, listened to 0 and was last seen online 3 weeks ago. Bill has contributed 1 stories to Shortbread. |