Ken Bruen

Ken Bruen ( born January 3, 1951 in Galway ) is an Irish author and social critic gloomy detective novels. He is considered an important representative of the Irish Noir.

Life

Ken Bruen visited the St. Joseph's College in Galway City, and later Trinity College Dublin, where he completed a doctorate on metaphysics.

Before he started writing, he had lived for 25 years as an English teacher in Africa, Japan, Southeast Asia and South America and worked. Today he is a member of a literary circle to Jason Starr, Reed Farrel Coleman and Allan Guthrie. His books have been honored with numerous awards, including the prestigious Shamus Award and the French Grand Prix de littérature policière.

Bruen lives with his wife and daughter of a joint in his hometown of Galway.

Since 2010, based on his Jack Taylor book series television detective series produced by Jack Taylor.

Awards

• 2004 Shamus Award - for Best Novel for The Guards (. Ger Jack Taylor out Atrium flies, Zurich 2009)
• 2005 Macavity Award - Best Novel for The Killing of the Tinkers (Eng. Jack Taylor is wrong Atrium, Zurich, 2010. )
• 2007 Barry Award - Category Best British crime novel for Priest ( dt Jack Taylor and the prodigal son Atrium, Zurich, 2011. )
• 2007 Shamus Award - for Best Novel for The Dramatist (Eng. A drama for Jack Taylor Atrium, Zurich, 2011. )
• 2009 Grand prix de littérature policière - Category International for La main droite du diable ( original: Priest )
• 2010 German Thriller Prize - Category International (3) Jack Taylor flies out ( Original: The Guards )
• 2010 Macavity Award - Best Novel category for Tower ( Reed Farrel Coleman together with )

The crime novels

In Galway settled, the books tell the Jack Taylor series about the adventures and misadventures of disgraced former police officer Jack Taylor, who ekes out a ruined by alcohol and drug abuse life as aimless private investigator. The series traces the social change in Ireland Bruens survival time after; Special attention is thereby the decline of the Catholic Church as a social and political power. Apart from the aspect of immigration to our flourishing since the early 1990s, economic development in Ireland is a recurrent theme. Often this is represented as a force that Ireland has transformed into a spiritually emaciated and materialistic society with the still deep social inequality.

Works

Jack Taylor series

• 2001 The Guards Jack Taylor flies out, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich, 2009. ISBN 978-3-85535-044-5

• Jack Taylor is wrong, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich, 2010. ISBN 978-3-85535-045-2

• Jack Taylor is going to hell, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich, 2010. ISBN 978-3-85535-046-9

• A drama for Jack Taylor, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich, 2011. ISBN 978-3-85535-047-6

• Jack Taylor and the prodigal son, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich, 2011. ISBN 978-3-85535-048-3

• Jack Taylor at the crossroads, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich, 2011. ISBN 978-3-85535-049-0

• Jack Taylor against Benedictus, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich, 2012. ISBN 978-3-85535-050-6

• Jack Taylor goes to hell, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich, 2012. ISBN 978-3-85535-051-3

• A grave stone for Jack Taylor, dt of Harry Rowohlt; Atrium, Zurich 2013. ISBN 978-3-85535-052-0

Detective Sergeant Tom Brant and Chief Inspector James Roberts series

Max Fisher and Angela Petrakos series

• 2006 Bust (together with Jason Starr ) Flop, dt Richard Betzenbichler; Red Book, Berlin, 2008. ISBN 978-3-86789-023-6

• Crack German by Richard Betzenbichler; Red Book, Berlin, 2009. ISBN 978-3-86789-067-0

• Attica: Behind bars ... and dangerous, dt Richard Betzenbichler; Red Book, Berlin, 2010. ISBN 978-3-86789-123-3

Title

• Abgebrannt, German by Brigitte and Niklaus Helbling; Rowohlt, Reinbek 1998. ISBN 3-499-43313-3

• London Boulevard, dt by Conny fighting; Suhrkamp, Berlin, 2010. ISBN 978-3-518-46208-9

• Tower, dt Richard Betzenbichler; Red Book, Berlin, 2012. ISBN 978-3-86789-162-2