XXIV edition
9/14 December 2014
Jeffery Deaver in Courmayeur to receive the Raymond Chandler Award
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Jeffery Deaver © Jerry Bauer
A three-time winner of the Ellery Queen Award and six-time nominee for the Edgar® Award his books published in 150 countries and translated into 25 languages Jeffery Deaver, renowned as one of the greatest innovators of the noir genre, will be on hand to receive the Courmayeur Noir in Festival’s lifetime achievement award. His latest novel comes out in Italy on October 15, published by Rizzoli Editore: The Skin Collector brings back the fantastic duo composed of the quadriplegic detective Lincoln Rhyme and his associate, special agent Amelia Sachs.
"We’ve been linked to this extraordinary author for years now," says fest co-director Marina Fabbri, "and although we’re passionate followers of all his unforgettable characters, we’re especially glad to honor him with this award in the same year his best-loved detective makes his return: that Bone Collector who catapulted Deaver to the world stage in 1999, earning him the Nero Wolfe Award and coming to life on the screen in Phillip Noyce’s film of the same name, starring Denzel Washington and Angeline Jolie, which premiered right here in Courmayeur."
Jeffery Deaver will receive the Raymond Chandler Award on the night of Wednesday, December 10 and will meet fans and festivalgoers on the morning of Thursday, the 11th.
The Raymond Chandler Award, established by Irene Bignardi in 1996, thanks to a collaboration with the Raymond Chandler Estate, has been bestowed on an array of the world’s leading writers in the genre, including P.D. James, John le Carré, John Grisham, Elmore Leonard, Scott Turow, Michael Connelly, Andrea Camilleri, Petros Markaris and many more, most recently Henning Mankell in 2013.
Jeffery Deaver was born in Glen Ellyn, near Chicago, in 1950, and was a reporter and attorney before turning to novel-writing at the age of forty. Among the novels that have made him a household name, there’s the Rune trilogy, the John Pellam series and the Kathryn Dance series, as well as 11 novels featuring Lincoln Rhyme. In 2011 he published Carte Blanche, in which he continued the adventures of James Bond, only the second American writer to take up the challenge, after Raymond Benson. This novel, once again published in Italy by Rizzoli, earned Deaver the Crime Writers’ Association’s Ian Fleming Steel Dagger.
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