Sunday, October 04, 2015

Australian ghostwriter beats Stephen King and JK Rowling to top UK crimewriting award

Michael Robotham, who ghosted for Geri Halliwell and Rolf Harris, wins Golden Dagger for 10th novel, Life or Death, at Crime Writers’ Association awards

Gold Dagger award-winner Michael Robotham.

Crime does pay … Gold Dagger award-winner Michael Robotham. Photograph: Tony Mott
A former celebrity-memoir ghostwriter has beaten Stephen King and JK Rowling to scoop the top honour in the Crime Writers’ Association’s Dagger awards.

Australian Michael Robotham was revealed as the Gold Dagger award-winner for his 10th novel, Life Or Death (Little, Brown), at a presentation at London’s Malmaison hotel on Tuesday night, joining two American authors to freeze British writers off the rostrum.

Sydney-based Robotham previously wrote celebrity autobiographies for Geri Halliwell, Lulu and Rolf Harris, whose book the author removed from his shelves after Harris’s conviction for sex offences, which, he said, left him feeling “betrayed”.
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