Colin Cotterill

Colin Cotterill (born 2 October 1952) is a London-born teacher, crime writer and cartoonist. Cotterill has dual English and Australian citizenship; however, he currently lives in Southeast Asia, where he writes the award-winning Dr. Siri mystery series set in the People's Democratic Republic of Laos, and the Jimm Juree crime novels set in southern Thailand.

Biography

Colin Cotterill was born in London and trained as a teacher. He worked as a Physical Education instructor in Israel, a primary school teacher in Australia, a counselor for educationally handicapped adults in the US, and a university lecturer in Japan. More recently, Colin taught and trained teachers in Thailand and on the Burmese border. He spent several years in Laos, initially with UNESCO and wrote and produced a forty-programme language teaching series; English By Accident, for Thai national television.

Cotterill became involved in child protection in the region and set up an NGO in Phuket which he ran for the first two years. After two more years of study in child abuse issues, and one more stint in Phuket, he moved on to ECPAT, an international organisation combating child prostitution and pornography. He established their training program for caregivers.

During this time, Cotterill contributed regular columns for the Bangkok Post. His first novel, The Night Bastard, was published by Suk's Editions in 2000. The postive reaction to his novel prompted Cotterill to write full time. His subsequent books include Evil in the Land Without (Asia Books December 2003), Pool and Its Role in Asian Communism (Asia Books, Dec 2005), The Coroner's Lunch (Soho Press. Dec 2004), Thirty Three Teeth (Aug 2005), Disco for the Departed (Aug 2006), Anarchy and Old Dogs (Aug 2007), Curse of the Pogo Stick (Aug 2008), The Merry Misogynist (Aug 2009), Love Songs from a Shallow Grave (Aug 2010), and Slash and Burn (2011).

On 15 June 2009 Colin Cotterill received the Crime Writers' Association "Dagger in the Library" award for being "the author of crime fiction whose work is currently giving the greatest enjoyment to library users".[1]

Cotterill set up a project to send books to Lao children and sponsor trainee teachers. The "Books for Laos" programme elicits support from fans of the books and is administered purely on a voluntary basis. In 2016, he was directing his efforts toward the not-for-profit publishing project in Laos, Big Brother Mouse, founded by Sasha Alyson.[2]

Since 1990, Cotterill has been a regular cartoonist for national publications. A Thai language translation of his cartoon scrapbook, Ethel and Joan Go to Phuket was published by Matichon in May 2004. On 4 April 2004, an illustrated bilingual column cycle logical was launched in Matichon's weekly news magazine. These have been published in book form.

Bibliography

Dr. Siri Paiboun series

Soho Press, New York. ISBN 1-56947-376-5

Soho Press, New York. ISBN 1-56947-388-9

Soho Press, New York. ISBN 1-56947-464-8

Soho Press, New York. ISBN 1-56947-463-X

Soho Press, New York, ISBN 1-56947-485-0

Soho Press, New York. ISBN 1-56947-556-3
Quercus, UK. ISBN 1-84916-008-2

Soho Press, New York. ISBN 978-1-56947-627-7

Quercus Publishing Plc, London. ISBN 978-0-85738-198-9

Quercus Publishing Plc, London. ISBN 978-1-78087-832-4

Soho Crime, New York. ISBN 978-1-61695-5588

Soho Crime, New York. ISBN 978-1-61695-722-3

Jimm Juree series

Minotaur Books, New York ISBN 978-0-312-56453-7

Minotaur Books, New York ISBN 978-0-312-56454-4

Minotaur Books, New York ISBN 9781250043368

Other publications

iUniverse, USA

Matichon Suth Supdah Magazine. Thailand.
Cyclelogical Collection in book form, (2006) (ขับช้าชิดซ้าย)
Matichon, Bangkok, ISBN 974-323-709-7

Asia Books, Thailand, ISBN 974-8303-76-4

Matichon Publishing House (Thai language), Thailand ISBN 974-323-236-2

Asia Books, Thailand ISBN 974-8303-70-5

Suk's Editions, Thailand ISBN 974-7457-24-5

Awards

References

  1. 1 2 "2009 CWA Daggers". The Crime Writers' Association. Retrieved September 8, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Books for Laos". Colin Cotterill. Retrieved September 8, 2016. details
  3. ↑ "Stop, You're Killing Me! website, Dilys Award 1992-2011". Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  4. ↑ "crime fiction convention in Bristol, UK". Crimefest. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  5. ↑ "Frances Fyfield wins the CWA Duncan Lawrie Dagger 2008". Thecwa.co.uk. 2011-10-13. Retrieved 2012-01-26.
  6. ↑
  7. ↑ "Stop, You're Killing Me! website, Dilys Award 1992-2011". Retrieved 2012-06-22.
  8. ↑ "Deadly Pleasures Mystery Magazine- Barry Awards". Deadlypleasures.com. 2008-10-09. Retrieved 2012-01-26.

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