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Denise Mina

Literary Birthday – 21 August – Denise Mina

Happy Birthday, Denise Mina, born on 21 August 1966.

Denise Mina Quotes

  1. To have a very strong opinion all the time is corrosive to a person’s intellect. It becomes your default position.
  2. A man who thinks he has a higher purpose can do terrible things, even to those he professes to love.
  3. I respond very well to rules. If there are certain parameters it’s much easier to do something really good. Especially when readers know what those are. They know what to expect and then you have to wrong-foot them. That is the trick of crime fiction. And readers come to crime and graphic novels wanting to be entertained, or disgusted.
  4. I think the negative traits are what makes us love other human beings, the foibles and the flaws.
  5. None of us know what is going to sell or what people want to read.
  6. Crime fiction is the fiction of social history. Societies get the crimes they deserve.

Denise Mina is an award-winning Scottish crime writer and playwright. She is a leading figure in Tartan Noir, the name often given to Scottish crime fiction. Crime writer Val McDermid has called her ‘crime writing royalty’. Mina began her crime-writing career with Garnethill, published in 1998. The first book in the Garnethill trilogy, it won the Crime Writers’ Association John Creasey Dagger for Best First Crime Novel. She followed it with Exile and Resolution, completing the trilogy. Mina went on to write Deception, Field of Blood, and The Alex Morrow series. She has published 14 novels and also writes short stories, plays, and graphic novels. She adapted Stieg Larsson’s Millennium trilogy, featuring Lisbeth Salander, as graphic novels. In 2014, Mina was inducted into the Crime Writers’ Association Hall of Fame. Her work has helped shape modern Scottish crime fiction and establish Tartan Noir as a distinctive voice in the crime genre.

Image source: Author’s Pictures, Credit Urszula Solyts

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Posted on: 21st August 2015
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