Awards & Winners

Iain Pears

Date of Birth 1955
Place of Birth Coventry
(West Midlands, United Kingdom, England, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality United Kingdom
Profession Writer
Iain Pears is an English art historian, novelist and journalist. He was educated at Warwick School, Warwick, Wadham College and Wolfson College, Oxford. Before writing, he worked as a reporter for the BBC, Channel 4 and ZDF and correspondent for Reuters from 1982 to 1990 in Italy, France, UK and US. In 1987 he became a Getty Fellow in the Arts and Humanities at Yale University. His well-known novel series features Jonathan Argyll, art historian, though international fame first arrived with his best selling book An Instance of the Fingerpost, which was translated into several languages. Pears currently lives with his wife and children in Oxford.

Awards by Iain Pears

Check all the awards nominated and won by Iain Pears.

2005


Nominations 2005 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award The portrait

1999


Martin Beck Award
Honored for : An Instance of the Fingerpost