Daniel Kalla
1966
Daniel Kalla is one of the highly popular authors from Canada, who is famous for writing his books based on the mystery, thriller, and historical fiction genres. He is also a popular physician. Author Kalla has written a few very popular thriller novels in his writing career, all of which are based on the medical theme. As a physician, Kall used to serve as the director of the Emergency Medicine at the St Paul’s Hospital, located in Vancouver, British Columbia. Author Kalla was born and brought up in Vancouver. He still resides there and spends most of time during the day as a physician in the Emergency Room of a leading teaching hospital. Kalla likes to write and manage his other career only in his off time. However, after the recent success of his novels, he has started taking it more seriously. So far, author Kalla has written and published a total of 9 books, all of which were translated and re-published into as many as 11 foreign languages. The Shanghai trilogy novels that Kalla has written are in the talks to be made into feature films. The successful novels of author Kalla have helped him to become the finalist for the prestigious Spotted Owl Award on three occasions. He received the nominations for this award in the category of the best mystery book of the year of Pacific Northwest. Citing the tremendous success of author Kalla in such a short career span and also his interesting writing style, Chronicle Herald has dubbed him as the ‘next’ Michael Crichton. Kalla has stated that he got the idea to write his debut medical thriller, called Pandemic, from the clinical experience of his own during the SARS crisis in 2003. Five of his medical mysteries/ science thrillers delve into the diverse topics and themes like drug addiction, DNA evidence, superbugs, patient abuse, and pandemics.