Biography
In the mid-2000s, after visiting the Center for Anthropological Studies, the Farm of Torpov, located in the US state of Tennessee, the British author and journalist Simon Bekett inspired to create a series of literary thrillers about the forensic medicine specialist David Hunter. After 5 years, these works were translated into 29 languages and, won popularity around the world, diverged more than half a million edition.Childhood and youth
Simon Beketta was born on April 20, 1960 in Sheffield, and his childhood has passed in an unremarkable work family. In his youth, leaving the city where the metallurgical industry dominated, the future writer received a master's degree in English in a prestigious university and for some time he worked as a teacher in Spain and played percussions in a number of musical groups.
Returning to the Motherland, Simon tried to continue his artist's career, but unlike comrades on the team did not succeed in this field. Therefore, the teacher decided to use moments from his own biography in the field of journalism and create entertaining notes for the British edition of The Observer.
Over time, Beckett got the work of a freelance correspondent in British and American weekly The Times, The Independent on Sunday and The Daily Telegraph and, without having a special license and education, began to regularly write thematic reviews and articles. At the same time, the young Briton decided to engage in artistic literature and began a long way to create a novel "Chemistry of Death".
Books
Before it is famous due to the cycle of criminal thrillers, in 1994, Beckett published the Debut Roman "Fine Lines", and then thanks to the appearance of a literary agent and a contract with a small British publishing house, his bibliography was replenished with the psychological thrillers "Animals", "Where's Smoke" and "Owning Jacob. "In the 2000s, Simon, becoming a rather famous author in the UK, began to create the main work of his life and at the preparation stage, a scientific research center "Farm Torpov" was visited. Under the impression of what he saw, he wrote an article for the daily newspaper The Daily Telegraph, subsequently acquired an art form, and called "Chemistry of Death" turned it into a criminal plenty novel.
The main hero of the book printed in early 2006 was the anthropologist David Hunter, who after the accident left a professional practice and retired in the distant village of Norfolk. But dreams of a calm existence broke the detection of a worried corpse of a woman. There was a need to restore the cause and chronology of the crime, and the hero had the necessary skills and was the only person who knows this.
At first glance, the plot seemed to be banal, but in the process of creating a writer applied to anyone who does not like "humanizing" approach. Considering that criminal literature is filled with drunken, crazy and eccentric heroes, he presented a character of Hunter differently. As a result, the work received a nomination for the Association of Crime Authors Association and was sold to a huge circulation of less than a year.
Such success pushed Beckett to write a continuation of the history of the anthropologist and publish no less popular novels "perpetuated by the bones", the "whisper of the dead", "Call of the grave", "Cat and a mouse" and "the dead are not lying." These works along with the "multiple bruises" not belonging to the series brought world famous to the author and were awarded the German award Der Leserpreis. And then they followed other prestigious literary awards and the victory at the European Writers-Criminist Writers' competition 'Ripper' Award.
Personal life
Simon Beckett believes that readers must see in it primarily of the writer, so prefers to keep a personal life secret.
However, it is written on the official website that the author of the "Chemistry of Death" together with his wife lives in England, but this fact has no confirmation on any photo published in Instagram.
Simon Beckett now
Now Beckett is considered one of the best-selling European authors and on this indicator is ahead of Ian Makuan and Joan Rowling.Therefore, the 6th novel about the adventures of Dr. David Hunter, published in 2019 called the "smell of death," immediately became a bestseller in the UK.
Bibliography
- 2006 - "Chemistry of death"
- 2007 - "immortalized bones"
- 2009 - "The Whisper of the Dead"
- 2010 - "Call from the grave"
- 2014 - "Multiple Ears"
- 2017 - "Dead are not lgut"
- 2019 - "Smell of Death"