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name: Craig Russell
about: Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.  Award-winning, best-selling and critically-acclaimed author. His novels have been published in twenty-five languages around the world. The movie rights to the Devil Aspect have been bought by Columbia Pictures. Biblical, his science-fiction novel, has been acquired by Imaginarium Studios/Sonar Entertainment, four Jan Fabel novels have been made into movies (in one of which Craig Russell makes a cameo appearance as a detective) for ARD, the German national broadcaster, and the Lennox series has been optioned for TV development.Craig Russell:•	won the 2015 Crime Book of the Year (McIlvanney Prize) for 'The Ghosts of A Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the GoodReads database with this name. See this thread for more information.  Award-winning, best-selling and critically-acclaimed author. His novels have been published in twenty-five languages around the world. The movie rights to the Devil Aspect have been bought by Columbia Pictures. Biblical, his science-fiction novel, has been acquired by Imaginarium Studios/Sonar Entertainment, four Jan Fabel novels have been made into movies (in one of which Craig Russell makes a cameo appearance as a detective) for ARD, the German national broadcaster, and the Lennox series has been optioned for TV development.Craig Russell:•	won the 2015 Crime Book of the Year (McIlvanney Prize) for 'The Ghosts of Altona', and is currently longlisted for the 2017 McIlvanney Prize for 'The Quiet Death of Thomas Quaid', the latest in the Lennox series;•	was a finalist for the 2013 Ellis Peters Historical Dagger;•	was a finalist for the 2012 Crime Book of the Year (McIlvanney Prize);•	won the 2008 CWA Dagger in the Library for the Fabel series;•	was a finalist for the 2007 CWA Duncan Lawrie Golden Dagger;•	was a finalist for the 2007 SNCF Prix Polar in France; •	is the only non-German to be awarded the highly prestigious Polizeistern by the Polizei Hamburg.Official website: http://www.craigrussell.comFacebook Fanpage: https://www.facebook.com/craigrussell...Twitter: https://twitter.com/thecraigrussellAlso writes under the pseudonym Christopher Galt ...more