Adrian McKinty
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| Born | 1968 Belfast, Northern Ireland |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British/Irish |
| Education | University of Warwick, University of Oxford |
| Period | 1990s- |
| Genre | Crime fiction, young adult fiction |
| Literary movement | Celtic New Wave in Crime Fiction |
| Notable works | The Cold Cold Ground (Sean Duffy series) |
| Notable awards | Ned Kelly Award 2014, Dagger Award Shortlist, Edgar Award Shortlist |
| Spouse | Leah |
| Children | Arwynn, Sophie |
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Adrian McKinty is an Irish crime novelist who has won the Ned Kelly Award and been shortlisted for the Edgar Award, Dagger Award, Anthony Award, Theakston Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award and the Grand Prix de Littérature Policière. He was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland in 1968 and grew up in Victoria Council Estate, Carrickfergus, County Antrim. He read law at the University of Warwick and politics and philosophy at the University of Oxford. He moved to the United States in the early 1990s, living first in Harlem, New York and from 2000 onwards Denver, Colorado where he taught high school English and began writing fiction. Since 2008 McKinty has lived in Melbourne, Australia with his wife and two children.
McKinty has written eighteen books twelve of which form two trilogies and a sextet. He is primarily known as a writer of genre fiction: crime and mystery novels and young adult fiction. McKinty writes in a stylised prose manner with echoes of James Ellroy, and Elmore Leonard. Patrick Anderson of the Washington Post has praised McKinty as a leading light in the new wave of Irish crime novelists whose most celebrated members are Ken Bruen, Declan Hughes and John Connolly. McKinty has been criticised for the explicit use of violence in his novels, however John O'Connor reviewing McKinty's "Fifty Grand" in The Guardian called him a "master of modern noir, up there with the likes of Dennis Lehane." McKinty uses the classic noir tropes of revenge and betrayal to explore his characters' existential quest for meaning in an often bleak but lyrically intense universe. Steve Dougherty writing in The Wall Street Journal praised McKinty's use of irony and humour as a counterpoint to the violent world inhabited by McKinty's Sean Duffy character.
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