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Template:Short description Template:About Template:EngvarB Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox writer Template:^ Philip Ballantyne Kerr (22 February 1956 – 23 March 2018) was a British author,<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref><ref>Template:Cite book</ref><ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> best known for his Bernie Gunther series of historical detective thrillers.

Early lifeEdit

Kerr was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, where his father was an engineer and his mother worked as a secretary.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> He was educated at a grammar school in Northampton. He studied at the University of Birmingham from 1974 to 1980, gaining a master's degree in law and philosophy.<ref name=tele2012/> Kerr worked as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi & Saatchi<ref name=tele2012>Template:Cite news</ref> before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. In a 2012 interview, Kerr noted that he began his literary career at the age of twelve by writing pornographic stories and lending them to classmates for a fee.<ref name=tele2012/>

CareerEdit

A writer of both adult fiction and non-fiction, he is known for the Bernhard "Bernie" Gunther series of 14 historical thrillers set in Germany and elsewhere during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War. He also wrote children's books under the name P. B. Kerr, including the Children of the Lamp series. Kerr wrote for The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard, and the New Statesman. He was married to fellow novelist Jane Thynne; they lived in Wimbledon, London,<ref>Template:Cite news</ref> and had three children. Just before he died, he finished a 14th Bernie Gunther novel, Metropolis, which was published posthumously, in 2019.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>

Awards and honoursEdit

In 1993, Kerr was named in Granta's list of Best Young British Novelists.<ref name=tele2012/> In 2009, If the Dead Rise Not won the world's most lucrative crime fiction award, the RBA Prize for Crime Writing worth €125,000.<ref name=tremlett>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref> The book also won the British Crime Writers' Association's Ellis Peters Historic Crime Award that same year.<ref>Template:Cite press release</ref> His novel, Prussian Blue, was longlisted for the 2018 Walter Scott Prize.

DeathEdit

Kerr died at age 62 from bladder cancer on 23 March 2018.<ref>Template:Cite news</ref>

PublicationsEdit

NovelsEdit

Bernie GuntherEdit

  • "Berlin Noir" "Bernie Gunther" trilogy, republished 1993 by Penguin Books in one volume. Template:ISBN.
  • Later "Bernie Gunther" novels
    • The One from the Other. New York: Putnam, 2006. Template:ISBN, set in 1949 (intro set in 1937)
    • A Quiet Flame. London: Quercus, 2008. Template:ISBN, set in 1950 and 1932-33
    • If the Dead Rise Not. London: Quercus, 2009. Template:ISBN, set in 1934 and 1954
    • Field Grey.<ref>The text on the dust jacket of UK hardback editions of Field Grey, as well as many listings at online retailers, contain an incorrect early plot summary referencing many elements – including the Isle of Pines as a location and Fidel Castro and a French intelligence officer named Thibaud as characters – that do not appear in the final book.</ref> (Field Gray in USA) London: Quercus, 2010. Template:ISBN, set in 1954 with flashbacks from 1941, 1931, 1940, & 1945/46.
    • Prague Fatale.<ref>Prague Fatale was originally announced under the title The Man with the Iron Heart. The name had to be changed shortly before publication, when the publishers discovered there was already a novel with the same title, also about Reinhard Heydrich, by author Harry Turtledove.</ref> London: Quercus, 2011 Template:ISBN, set in 1941
    • A Man Without Breath. London: Quercus, 2013. Template:ISBN, set in 1943
    • The Lady from Zagreb. London: Quercus, 2015. Template:ISBN, set in 1942–3, with framing scenes in 1956.
    • The Other Side of Silence. London: Quercus, 2016. Template:ISBN, set in 1956
    • Prussian Blue. London: Quercus, 2017. Template:ISBN, set in 1939, with framing scenes in 1956
    • Greeks Bearing Gifts. London: Quercus, 2018. Template:ISBN, set in 1957
    • Metropolis. London: Quercus, 2019. Template:ISBN, set in 1928

Scott Manson novelsEdit

  • January Window. London: Head of Zeus, 23 October 2014. Template:ISBN Template:ASIN
  • Hand of God. London: Head of Zeus, 4 June 2015. Template:ASIN <ref name="fantasticfiction.co.uk">{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation

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  • False Nine. London: Head of Zeus, 5 November 2015. Template:ASIN <ref name="fantasticfiction.co.uk"/>

Stand alone novelsEdit

Non fictionEdit

  • The Penguin Book of Lies. 1991;1996
  • The Penguin Book of Fights, Feuds and Heartfelt Hatreds: An Anthology of Antipathy. 1992;1993

Children's fiction (as P. B. Kerr)Edit

Children of the LampEdit

Stand alone fictionEdit

  • One Small Step. London: Simon & Schuster, 2008 (paper). Template:ISBN
  • The Most Frightening Story Ever Told. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2016. Template:ISBN
  • Friedrich der Große Detektiv (Frederick the Great Detective).<ref>As of 2023, published only in a German translation.</ref> Rowohlt Verlag, 2017. Template:ISBN

NotesEdit

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External linksEdit

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