![]() ![]() ![]() Cleeves was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE) in the 2022 New Year Honours for services to reading and libraries. In February 2019 Ann Cleeves appeared on Desert Island Discs. Ĭleeves was chosen as the 2017 recipient of the Cartier Diamond Dagger from the Crime Writers' Association for "sustained excellence" in crime fiction. In 2015, she was shortlisted for the Dagger in the Library UK Crime Writers' Association award for an author's body of work in British libraries (UK). In 2015, Cleeves was the Programming Chair for the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Writing Festival & the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award. In 2014 Cleeves was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of Sunderland. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black. ![]() She lives in Whitley Bay, and is widowed with two daughters. In 2006 she won the Duncan Lawrie Dagger for her novel Raven Black, the first novel in the Jimmy Perez series.Ĭleeves was born in Herefordshire and brought up in north Devon where she attended Barnstaple Grammar School she studied English at the University of Sussex but dropped out and then took up various jobs including cook at the Fair Isle bird observatory, auxiliary coastguard, probation officer, library outreach worker and child care officer. She wrote the Vera Stanhope, Jimmy Perez, and Matthew Venn series, all three of which have been adapted into TV shows. Ann Cleeves OBE (born 1954) is a British mystery crime writer. ![]()
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