Val McDermid

Val McDermid has sold over 19 million copies of her novels to date worldwide, her work has been translated into more than forty languages and adapted for radio, theatre and television. Her contribution has been recognised with awards including the CWA Gold Dagger, the CWA Cartier Diamond Dagger, the Grand Prix des Romans D'Aventure, the Lambda Literary Foundation Pioneer Award, the LA Times Book of the Year Award, the Stonewall Writer of the Year, the DIVA Literary Prize for Crime and the Outstanding Contribution to Crime Fiction award at the Theakston's Old Peculiar Harrogate Crime Festival. Uniquely, she has been shortlisted in five different categories in the Mystery Writers of America Edgar Awards. She is a Fellow of both the Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Society of Edinburgh, an Honorary Fellow of St Hilda's College, Oxford, Professor of Scottish Studies and Crime Fiction at the University of Otago in New Zealand, and the recipient of seven Honorary Doctorates. She has served as a judge for the Man Booker Prize, the Women's Prize for Fiction and the Wellcome Book Prize.