Val mcdermid biography
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Val McDermid
Val McDermid FRSE, FRSL (born the 4 Juin 1955) is a Scots crime writer, best kent fur her suspense novelles featurin Dr. Tony Hill.
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[eedit | eedit soorce]McDermid wis born intae a wirkin-cless family in Fife.
Val mcdermid biography
She studied Inglis at St. Hilda's College, Oxford,[1] whaur she wis the furst scholart tae come frae a Scots state schuil.[2]
Efter graduatin she becam a jurnalist an began her leeterar career as a dramatist.
She furthset her furst novelle, Report for Murder: The First Lindsay Gordon Mystery in 1987.[3]
She wis gien an honorary doctorate frae the Varsity o Sunderland in 2011.[4] She cofoondit the Harrogate Crime Writing Festival an the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award, pairt o the Harrogate International Festivals.
In 2016 she led a team o St. Hilda's alumnae tae win the Christmas University Challenge.[5]
In 2017, McDermid wis electit as a Fellow of the Royal Society