Sam Millar is a best-selling crime writer and playwright from Belfast

Belfast

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, Northern Ireland

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, UK. He has won numerous literary awards and his books have all been critically praised. Warner Brothers has acquired the rights to his best-selling memoir, On The Brinks.

Winner of the prestigious Aisling Award for Art and Culture, 2003/4

Winner of the Martin Healy Short Story Award

Winner of the Brian Moore Award for Short Stories

Winner of the Cork Literary Review Writer’s Competition

Work performed by the BBC

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; published in over thirty literary journals throughout the world, including the USA, Australia

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, Europe

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 and Africa

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Writer of the critically acclaimed and bestselling Karl Kane crime books.

Short-listed (The Redemption Factory) for the Grand Prix de littérature policière 2011, the most prestigious crime award in France.

List of novels and books:
Dark Souls, On The Brinks, The Redemption Factory, The Darkness of Bones, Bloodstorm: A Karl Kane Book, The Dark Place: A Karl Kane Book, The Dead of Winter: A Karl Kane Book, Small Town Killing, Brothers In Arms (Stage play)

Sam Millar is represented worldwide by WBMT Literary, Film and Television.

External links

• http://crimesquad.com/author-month.asp?year=2009&month=10
• http://www.millarcrime.com/
• http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article.aspx?art_id=2763
• http://www.fantasticfiction.co.uk/m/sam-millar/dark-place.htm
• http://www.mickhalpin.com/criticalmick_the_dark_place.htm
• http://www.whohub.com/sam
• http://www.waterfront.co.uk/news/newsdetails.aspx?id=1160

http://www.concierge-masque.com/2011/09/19/interview-de-sam-millar-redemption-factory/
http://www.nyjournalofbooks.com/reviewer/sam-millar
http://jsydneyjones.wordpress.com/2010/11/10/sam-millars-belfast-crime-novels-art-reflects-life/
http://www.culturenorthernireland.org/article/2763/sam-millar