Biography
Denise Mina (born 21 August 1966) is a Scottish crime writer and playwright. She has written the Garnethill trilogy and another three novels featuring the character Patricia "Paddy" Meehan, a Glasgow journalist. Described as an author of Tartan Noir, she has also written for comic books, including 13 issues of Hellblazer.Mina's first Paddy Meehan novel, The Field of Blood (2005), was filmed for broadcast in 2011 by the BBC, starring Jayd Johnson, Peter Capaldi and David Morrissey. The second, The Dead Hour, was filmed and broadcast in 2013. Denise Mina was born in East Kilbride in 1966. Her father worked as an engineer. Because of his work, the family moved 21 times in 18 years: from Paris to The Hague, London, Scotland and Bergen; she has also professed an affection for Rutherglen, her mother's home town. Mina left school at 16 and worked in a variety of jobs, including as a kitchen porter, a cook and behind a bar. She also worked for a time in a meat-processing factory. In her twenties she worked in auxiliary nursing for geriatric and terminal care patients, before returning to education and earning a law degree from Glasgow University.It was while researching a PhD thesis on the ascription of mental illness to female offenders, and teaching criminology and criminal law at Strathclyde University in the 1990s, that she decided to write her first novel Garnethill, published in 1998 by Transworld.
Mina lives in Glasgow.
Filmography
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TV Shows 7
self 5
Movies 1
Wordsworth & Coleridge: Road Trip (2021)
Boswell & Johnson's Scottish Road Trip (2020)
Skinner & Mina's Literary Roadtrip (2020)
The Big Scottish Book Club (2019)
Babel (2014)
The Field of Blood (2011)
Edgar Allan Poe: Love, Death, and Women (2010)
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson (2005)
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Known ForWriting
GenderFemale
Birthday1966-08-21 (57 years old)
Birth PlaceEast Kilbride, United Kingdom
CitizenshipsUnited Kingdom
ResidencesGlasgow, United Kingdom
AwardsCWA New Blood Dagger, Martin Beck Award, German Crime Fiction Award, Barry Award
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