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The Arts Hour: Granite Noir Crime Writing Festival

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Granite Noir Crime Writing Festival

19/12/2020 GMT

BBC World Service - The Arts Hour, Granite Noir Crime Writing Festival

We meet authors speaking at Granite Noir the crime writing festival in Aberdeen, Scotland

It’s a Crime Special this week as Nikki Bedi talks to some of the big names taking part in Granite Noir, the crime writing festival that takes place annually in Aberdeen, Scotland

It’s a Crime Special in this week’s The Arts Hour, as Nikki Bedi talks to some of the big names taking part in Granite Noir, the crime writing festival that takes place annually in Aberdeen, Scotland.

We hear from Sara Paretsky, who revolutionised the US crime fiction scene when her Private Eye, V. I. Warshawski transformed the role of women from victims to investigators. 

Dorothy Koomson is Britain’s biggest selling black female author of adult fiction. She tells us why she doesn’t write sequels, but chooses instead to create new characters each time she starts a new novel.

Helen Fitzgerald is known for her emotional thrillers. She grew up in small town Australia and has returned to her roots for her latest novel Ash Mountain.

Scottish writer and Granite Noir Ambassador Stuart MacBride explains why he chose the backdrop of Scottish Independence for his novel All That’s Dead, the importance of comedy in his works and why he’s needed a glossary of Scottish terms for both readers and editors of his books. 

Sif Sigmarsdóttir is an Icelandic writer of young adult fiction. Her latest book, The Sharp Edge of a Snowflake, explores the dark side of social media, inspired by the Me Too movement and the Cambridge Analytica scandal. 

And we speak to one of Granite Noir’s programmers Lee Randall and Jane Spiers, chief executive of Aberdeen Performing Arts.


(Photo: Granite Noir Crime Writing Festival venue Her Majesty's Theatre in Aberdeen, Scotland. Credit: Aberdeen Performing Arts)

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