Lindsey Davis: Biography
I was born and brought up in Birmingham,
read English at Oxford, then joined the civil service, which I
left in 1985.
My first published fiction was romantic serials in Woman's
Realm. I started writing about the Romans with The Course
of Honour, the remarkable true love story of the Emperor
Vespasian and his mistress Antonia Caenis. My research into
First Century Rome inspired The Silver Pigs, the first
outing for Falco and Helena, which was published in 1989.
Starting as a spoof using a Roman 'informer' as a classic,
metropolitan private eye, the series has developed into a set of
adventures in various styles which take place throughout the
Roman world. Its devoted readers follow the friends and family
of my hero (and his dog, Nux) as avidly as they devour the
mysteries he investigates; we have lively interaction via my
website.
2009 will see the publication in Britain and America of
Alexandria, the nineteenth Falco novel. There will also
be a brand new departure, Rebels and Traitors, set in the
English Civil War and Commonwealth. Nemesis, the 20th
Falco novel, and The Official Falco Companion will be
published in June 2010.
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Silver Pigs won the Authors' Club Best First Novel award in
1989; I have since won the Crimewriters' Association Dagger in
the Library and Ellis Peters Historical Dagger, while Falco has
won the Sherlock Award for Best Comic Detective. I have been
Chair of the UK Crimewriters' Association and Honorary President
of the Classical Association. In 2009 the city of Zaragoza
awarded me their International Prize for a career of writing
historical novels, the Premio de Honor de Novela Historica
Ciudad de Zaragoza.
My books are published in the UK and US, and translated into
many other languages. Audio readings and Large Print versions
are made. BBC Radio 4 has produced successful drama serials of
the early books, dramatised by Mary Cutler and starring Anton
Lesser as Falco and Anna Madeley as Helena.
The Official Website for my work is
www.lindseydavis.co.uk. A Lindsey Davis Newsletter is
published periodically by Random House and is available from
them.
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