Nicolas Freeling (1927–2003)
Author of Love in Amsterdam
About the Author
Novelist Nicolas Freeling was born in London on March 3, 1927. After serving in the military and working as a cook, he began his first novel, Love in Amsterdam, while in prision for theft. He is best know for his Piet Van der Valk dective stories which inspired two television series. He also show more created the Henri Castang series and wrote numerous individual novels. He received the Edgar Allan Poe Award from the Mystery Writers of America for The King of the Rainy Country. He also won the Gold Dagger from the British Crime Writers Association and France's Grand Prix de Roman Policier. He died on July 20, 2003 at the age of 76. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Nicolas Freeling
Because of the Cats 1 copy
Associated Works
Ellery Queen's Anthology #32: Magicians of Mystery (Fall/Winter 1976) (1976) — Contributor — 9 copies
Van Der Valk, Series 1-5 [1972-1992] — Creator — 7 copies
Time-Life Book Digest: Masquerade | Sand Castles | His Little Women | What Lisa Knew (1990) — Author — 2 copies
Van der Valk, Season 1 [1972] — Creator — 2 copies
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- Other names
- Davidson, Nicolas (birth name)
- Birthdate
- 1927-03-03
- Date of death
- 2003-07-20
- Gender
- male
- Nationality
- UK
- Birthplace
- London, England, UK
- Place of death
- Mutzig, Bas-Rhine, France
- Cause of death
- cancer
- Places of residence
- London, England, UK
Strasbourg, France
Amsterdam, Netherlands
Grandfontaine, Vosges, France
Schirmeck, Alsace, France - Education
- University of Dublin
- Occupations
- chef
novelist
crime writer - Organizations
- Royal Air Force
- Awards and honors
- CWA Gold Dagger (runner up 1963)
Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
Edgar Award (1967) - Short biography
- Nicolas Freeling dropped out of university and wanted to become a writer. He traveled around France and Britain, working in restaurants, and discovered he had a talent for cooking. In 1959, while working as a chef in Amsterdam, a brief stint in prison for theft led Freeling to start writing a detective story that became his first Inspector Van der Valk novel, published in 1962. After killing Van der Valk off in 1972, he launched the Castang series about a provincial French detective inspector. He also wrote stand-alone novels and other books. Over the years, Freeling won the three most prestigious awards for crime writing, the Grand Prix de Roman Policier, the Edgar Allan Poe Award and the British Crime Writers' Golden Dagger, but many consider his novels to be mainstream literature.
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