Craig Russell
1956
Craig Russell is a British novelist and short story writer that is also known as Christopher Galt which is the pseudonym he used to author his novel Biblical. He was born in Fife, Scotland in 1956 so it is natural that he finds inspiration in 1950s Glasgow. He has worked as creative director, freelance writer and a police officer which can be seen in his crime novels. He is fluent in German has a well documented fascination with the post-war German history and culture that inspired him to write the Jan Fabel series. He is most famous for his police procedural novels that brought him world acclaim and awards. It is evident from his work that he prefers to focus on crime investigation novels and to incorporate mythological and historical persons and creatures in order to describe the Europe we live in today. His work is translated into 23 languages and he is the only non-German recipient of the prestigious Police Star award that was awarded to him by the Hamburg Police for the Jan Fabel series.