Julian Symons

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Julian Symons (Londra, 30 maggio 1912 – Kent, 23 novembre 1994) è stato uno scrittore, critico letterario e poeta britannico. Dal suo romanzo The Man Who Killed Himself del 1967 è stato tratto il film Arthur! Arthur! del 1969.

Opere[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

Romanzi[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

• The Immaterial Murder Case (1945)
• A Man Called Jones (1947)
• Bland Beginning (1949)
  • I falsi di Amberside, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori n. 497, 1986
• The Thirty-First of February (1950)
  • Il 31 febbraio, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori, 2014
• The Broken Penny (1953)
• The Narrowing Circle (1954)
• The Paper Chase (1956) (alias Bogue's Fortune)
• The Colour of Murder (1957) (vincitore nel 1957 del Gold Dagger Award)
  • Un quadrato di seta nera
• The Gigantic Shadow (1958) (alias The Pipe Dream)
• The Progress of a Crime (1960) (vincitore nel 1961 dell'Edgar Award)
• The Killing of Francie Lake (1962) (alias The Plain Man)
• The End of Solomon Grundy (1964)
• The Belting Inheritance (1965)
• The Man Who Killed Himself (1967)
• The Man Whose Dreams Came True (1968)
• The Man Who Lost His Wife (1970)
• The Players and the Game (1972)
• The Plot Against Roger Rider (1973)
• A Three-Pipe Problem (1975)
• The Blackheath Poisonings (1978)
  • False verità, I Classici del Giallo Mondadori n. 704, 1994
• Sweet Adelaide (1980)
• The Detling Murders (1982) (alias The Detling Secret)
• The Name of Annabel Lee (1983)
• The Criminal Comedy of the Contented Couple (1985)
• The Kentish Manor Murders (1988)
• Death's Darkest Face (1990)
• Something Like a Love Affair (1992)
• Playing Happy Families (1994)
  • La famiglia felice, Il Giallo Mondadori n. 2508, 1997
• A Sort of Virtue: A Political Crime Novel (1996)

Racconti[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

• Murder! Murder! (1961)
• Francis Quarles Investigates (1965)
• How to Trap a Crook (1977)
• Great Detectives - Seven Original Investigations (1981)
• The Tigers of Subtopia (1982)
• Did Sherlock Holmes Meet Hercule... (1988)
• The Man Who Hated Television (1995)
• A Julian Symons Sherlockian Duet (2000)
• The Detections of Francis Quarles (2006)

Collegamenti esterni[modifica | modifica wikitesto]

• Symons, Julian, su sapere.it, De Agostini.
• (EN) Opere di Julian Symons, su Open Library, Internet Archive.
• (EN) Bibliografia di Julian Symons, su Internet Speculative Fiction Database, Al von Ruff.
• (EN) Julian Symons, su IMDb, IMDb.com.
• (EN) Julian Symons, su AllMovie, All Media Network.
• (EN) Sarah Lyall, Julian Symons is dead at 82, in New York Times.

V · D · M Vincitori del Gold Dagger Award
1955-1959	Winston Graham (1955) · Edward Grierson (1956) · Julian Symons (1957) · Margot Bennett (1958) · Eric Ambler (1959)
1960-1969	Lionel Davidson (1960) · Mary Kelly (1961) · Joan Fleming (1962) · John le Carré (1963) · H. R. F. Keating (1964) · Ross Macdonald (1965) · Lionel Davidson (1966) · Emma Lathen (1967) · Peter Dickinson (1968) · Peter Dickinson (1969)
1970-1979	Joan Fleming (1970) · James McClure (1971) · Eric Ambler (1972) · Robert Littell (1973) · Anthony Price (1974) · Nicholas Meyer (1975) · Ruth Rendell (1976) · John le Carré (1977) · Lionel Davidson (1978) · Dick Francis (1979)
1980-1989	H. R. F. Keating (1980) · Martin Cruz Smith (1981) · Peter Lovesey (1982) · John Hutton (1983) · Barbara Margaret Trimble (1984) · Paula Gosling (1985) · Ruth Rendell (1986) · Ruth Rendell (1987) · Michael Dibdin (1988) · Colin Dexter (1989)
1990-1999	Reginald Hill (1990) · Ruth Rendell (1991) · Colin Dexter (1992) · Patricia Cornwell (1993) · Minette Walters (1994) · Val McDermid (1995) · Ben Elton (1996) · Ian Rankin (1997) · James Lee Burke (1998) · Robert Wilson (1999)
2000-2009	Jonathan Lethem (2000) · Henning Mankell (2001) · José Carlos Somoza (2002) · Minette Walters (2003) · Sara Paretsky (2004) · Arnaldur Indriðason (2005) · Ann Cleeves (2006) · Peter Temple (2007) · Frances Fyfield (2008) · William Brodrick (2009)
2010-2019	Belinda Bauer (2010) · Tom Franklin (2011) · Gene Kerrigan (2012) · Mick Herron (2013) · Wiley Cash (2014) · Michael Robotham (2015) · Bill Beverly (2016) · Jane Harper (2017) · Steve Cavanagh (2018) · M.W. Craven (2019)
2020-2029	Michael Robotham (2020) · Chris Whitaker (2021) · Ray Celestin (2022) · George Dawes Green (2023)

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