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Lee Child has been named as Crime Writer of the year award at the Harrogate Literary Festival with his latest novel 61 Hours.
The popular writer of the Jack Reacher series of books was honoured by the Theakstons Old Peculier Crime Novel award this weekend. The fictional American crime detective has cemented Child’s reputation as a class crime writer; a copy of one of his Reacher series is sold every few seconds. Child is also the first British author to have sold over a million Amazon Kindle e-books. This popularity is set to soar higher with the release of a film based on the first Reacher book, One Shot, starring Tom Cruise as the hero.
It is the first time Child has won the award, beating the likes of twice previous winner Mark Billingham, Tess Gerritsen and Linwood Barclay.
The event also saw PD James honoured with a lifetime achievement award for her outstanding contribution to crime writing. Baroness James has been publishing crime novels for over fifty years with the her most famous detective, Adam Dalgliesh , featuring in her debut, Cover Her Face published in 1962.
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