David Young | |
|---|---|
| Born | David John Young Cottingham, East Riding of Yorkshire |
| Occupation | Novelist |
| Genre | Mystery, Thriller, Historical |
David John Young is an English novelist whose crime thriller series featuring a fictional Volkspolizei detective, Karin Müller, is set in 1970s East Germany.[1] Young's debut novel Stasi Child won the 2016 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for the best historical crime novel of the year.[2] Both it and the follow-up, Stasi Wolf, were longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively.[3][4] In 2017, Bonnier Zaffre, the UK adult fiction division of the Bonnier Group, announced Young had signed a six-figure deal for three further novels in the series, making five in all, with the third, A Darker State, being published in February 2018.[5] Young says the inspiration for the series came after his indie pop band The Candy Twins toured Germany in 2007 and he read Anna Funder's non-fiction book Stasiland between gigs.[6] He secured the tour thanks to favourable comments made by Edwyn Collins about a tribute song Young wrote about him.[7] Before becoming a full-time novelist, Young was a news producer and editor for more than 25 years with BBC World Service radio and BBC World TV.[8]
- ^ "Twenty7 Buys for Bonnier".
- ^ "CWA Daggers Awarded in Glittering Ceremony".
- ^ "2016 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Longlist Revealed". 15 June 2016.
- ^ "2017 Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel Of The Year Longlist Revealed". 16 April 2017.
- ^ "Three David Young thrillers to Bonnier Zaffre for six figures".
- ^ "Interview with the author". The Daily Telegraph. 18 February 2016. p. 28.
- ^ "How 'Stasi Child' Was Born by David Young". 5 October 2015.
- ^ "Cold War kid: author David Young on his acclaimed new crime thriller Stasi Child set in 1970s East Berlin". 11 August 2016.