Peter Tremayne
Auteur de The Druids
A propos de l'auteur
Peter Tremayne is the fiction writing pseudonym of the Celtic scholar and author Peter Berresford Ellis, who was born in Coventry, Warwickshire, England on March 10, 1943. Even though he received a BA and an MA in Celtic Studies, he decided to become a journalist and worked at numerous weekly afficher plus newspapers throughout England and Ireland. In 1968, he published is first book, Wales: A Nation Again, about the Welsh struggle for political independence. He became a full-time writer in 1975 and has published over 90 books under his own name and the pseudonyms Peter Tremayne and Peter MacAlan. One of his best known works under his real name is The Cornish Language and its Literature, which is considered the definitive history of the language. In 1988, he received an Irish Post Award in recognition of his services to Irish historical studies. Under the pseudonym Peter Tremayne, he writes the Sister Fidelma Mystery series. He received the French Prix Historia for the best historical mystery novel of 2010 for Le Concile des Maudits (The Council of the Cursed). (Bowker Author Biography) afficher moins
Crédit image: The International Sister Fidelma Society
Séries
Œuvres de Peter Tremayne
The Celtic Empire: The First Millennium of Celtic History, 1000 B.C. - A.D. 51 (1990) 178 exemplaires
Hell or Connaught: Cromwellian Colonisation of Ireland 1652-1660 (1975) — quelques éditions — 55 exemplaires
Celtic Whodunnits 7 exemplaires
Irish Masters of Fantasy: An Anthology with Introduction and Biographical Essays (1979) 6 exemplaires
Snow Beast! 2 exemplaires
The Siren of Sennen Cove 2 exemplaires
Beeston Castle, Cheshire a report on the excavations 1968-85 by Laurence Keen and Peter Hough (1993) 2 exemplaires
The Foxes of Fascoum 2 exemplaires
The Stuart Sapphire 2 exemplaires
The Temptations of Merlin 1 exemplaire
Murder in the Air 1 exemplaire
The Singing Stone 1 exemplaire
Scrif Celt 85 A Confrence and Exhibition on Contempoary Writing and Publishing in the Celtic Languages 1 exemplaire
Methought You Saw A Serpent 1 exemplaire
Yet More Celtic Whodunnits 1 exemplaire
Marbh Bheo [short story] 1 exemplaire
The Specter of Tullyfane Abbey 1 exemplaire
The Banshee 1 exemplaire
Fireball 1 exemplaire
Our Lady of Death [short story] 1 exemplaire
Terreur rampante 1 exemplaire
The Revenge of Dracula 1 exemplaire
Wer Lügen sät: Schwester Fidelma ermittelt 30 1 exemplaire
Dracula's Chair 1 exemplaire
Son of Dracula 1 exemplaire
For the Blood is the Life 1 exemplaire
The Oath of the Saxon 1 exemplaire
The Boyne Water : The Battle of the Boyne 1690 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
The Vampire Archives: The Most Complete Volume of Vampire Tales Ever Published (2009) — Contributeur — 184 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Locked-Room Mysteries and Impossible Crimes (2000) — Contributeur — 118 exemplaires
The Chronicles of the Holy Grail: The Ultimate Quest from the Age of Arthurian Literature (1996) — Contributeur — 75 exemplaires
The World's Finest Mystery and Crime Stories: First Annual Collection (2000) — Contributeur — 59 exemplaires
In the Shadow of Frankenstein: Tales of the Modern Prometheus (2016) — Contributeur — 44 exemplaires
The Mammoth Book of Hearts of Oak: Classic and New Stories from the Age of Fighting Sail (2001) — Contributeur — 33 exemplaires
The Deadly Bride and 21 of the Year's Finest Crime and Mystery Stories: Volume II (2006) — Contributeur — 26 exemplaires
The Collected Classical Stories and Classic Who Dunnits/boxed Set (2 volume set) (1996) — Contributeur — 24 exemplaires
Heroic Adventure Stories: From the Golden Age of Greece and Rome (1996) — Contributeur — 16 exemplaires
Histoire chronologique des pays celtiques : Ile de Man, Irlande, Ecosse, Pays de Galles, Bretagne, Cornouaille (1990) — Préface — 1 exemplaire
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom légal
- Ellis, Peter Berresford
- Autres noms
- MacAlan, Peter (pseudonym)
Tremayne, Peter (pseudonym) - Date de naissance
- 1943-03-10
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- Coventry, Warwickshire, England, UK
Cornwall, England, UK
Dublin, Ireland
Brighton, Sussex, England, UK - Études
- North East London Polytechnic (BA ∙ 1989)
University of East London (MA ∙ 1993) - Professions
- reporter
editor
writer
historian
biographer
novelist - Organisations
- Gorseth Kernow
- Prix et distinctions
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Antiquaries of Ireland, 1996
Fellow of the Royal Historical Society, 1998
Honorary Doctorate of Letters by the University of East London, 2006
Bard of the Cornish Gorsedd, 1987
Honorary Life President of the Scottish 1820 Society, 1989
Honorary Life Member of the Irish Literary Society, 2002 - Agent
- Euan Thorneycroft
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Celtic Fiction (1)
Monastic life (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 149
- Aussi par
- 76
- Membres
- 13,476
- Popularité
- #1,722
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 271
- ISBN
- 689
- Langues
- 12
- Favoris
- 29