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Lynda La Plante

Lynda La Plante
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Lynda La Plante

Lynda La Plante bestowed John Moores University with a creative writing scholarship in her hometown of Liverpool and is an honorary member of the British Film Institute. The British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) has also awarded Lynda with the Dennis Potter Writers Award.She was awarded a CBE in the 2008 Queen's Birthday Honours List (for services to Literature, Drama and to Charity), and was presented with the prestigious TV Spielfilm Award for her television adaptation of her novel Above Suspicion at the International Film and Television Festival Conference in Cologne. In 2009 Lynda was inducted into the Crime Thriller Awards Hall of Fame . Her novels... Read full bio

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The Independent, May 17, 2013
...Drama (which is where he met Emma). Leading television roles (in ITV's yuppie saga Capital City and Lynda La Plante's 1992 BBC drama about ex-paratroopers, Civvies) followed, as well as playing the gay Jewish office temp, Louis Ironson, in Tony...
Melbourne Age, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Maztachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...
Melbourne Age, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Mazrachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...
BBC, March 22, 2013
...Crime writer Lynda La Plante has been awarded an honorary fellowship by the Forensic Science Society. The Prime Suspect author is the first lay person to be inducted into the professional body. La...
Daily Express, March 22, 2013
...LYNDA LA PLANTE’S gritty and accurate portrayals of crime scenes and the work of police scientists have won her plenty of fans – including, it transpires, the Forensic Science Society...
The Independent, March 21, 2013
...Agatha Christie may have been dubbed "The Queen of Crime," but fellow bestselling writer Lynda La Plante has secured a title even her illustrious predecessor would have coveted. La Plante has received the ultimate accolade for a crime writer, becoming...
Gulf News, March 11, 2013
...enough, the budget of the project and what can be done practically must also be taken into consideration. Lynda La Plante, who writes the British crime series Prime Suspect for ITV based on her books by the same name, is a producer of other shows based...
Oberon Review, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Mazrachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...
Daily Liberal, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Mazrachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...
Kingscote Islander, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Mazrachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...
Merimbula News, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Mazrachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...
Southern Cross, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Mazrachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...
Young Witness, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Mazrachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...
Coly Point Observer, May 10, 2013
...in 1992, one year after the appearance of Thomas Harris' Clarice Starling, Patricia Cornwell's Kay Scarpetta and Lynda La Plante's Jane Tennison. Serial-killer victim and hunter Kirby Mazrachi is very much of her time. Harper Curtis, on the other hand,...