| Craig
Russell
was born in the Kingdom of Fife, Scotland and has worked
as a police officer, advertising copywriter and creative
director. He is the author of the best-selling Jan Fabel
thrillers set in Hamburg and published in twenty-three
languages around the world.
Writing
the Fabel series came about because of Russell's long-standing
interest in and affection for the German language, culture
and people.
Russell
is also the author of the forthcoming Lennox series
of novels, set in the gangland of 1950s Glasgow.
In
2007, he was awarded the highly prestigious Polizeistern
(Police Star) by the Polizei Hamburg, the only non-German
to receive this award. He was nominated for the 2007
CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger, the world's biggest
literary award for crime writers, as well as the SNCF
Prix Polar in France. Craig
Russell is the winner of the 2008 CWA Dagger in the
Library
When
not writing, Craig Russell paints, enjoys cooking, travelling
and studying German. He lives in Perthshire with his
wife and two children.
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