Awards & Winners

Philip Kerr

Date of Birth 22-February-1956
Place of Birth Edinburgh
(United Kingdom, Scotland, United Kingdom, with Dependencies and Territories)
Nationality Scotland
Also know as P. B. Kerr, Philip Ballantyne Kerr
Profession Writer, Novelist, Copywriter
Philip Kerr is a British author. Born in Edinburgh, in a Baptist family, Kerr was educated at Melville Collegeand at a grammar school in Northampton. He studied at the University of Birmingham from 1974 to 1980, eventually gaining a master's degree in law and philosophy. Kerr worked as an advertising copywriter for Saatchi and Saatchi before becoming a full-time writer in 1989. A writer of both adult fiction and non-fiction, he is known for the Bernie Gunther series of historical thrillers set in Germany and elsewhere during the 1930s, the Second World War and the Cold War. He has also written children's books under the name P.B. Kerr, including the Children of the Lamp series. Kerr has written for The Sunday Times, the Evening Standard and the New Statesman. He is married to fellow novelist Jane Thynne; the couple live in Wimbledon, London, and have three children.

Awards by Philip Kerr

Check all the awards nominated and won by Philip Kerr.

2012


Nominations 2012 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
Edgar Award for Best Novel Field Gray

2009


CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award
Honored for : If The Dead Rise Not

Nominations 2009 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award If The Dead Rise Not

2008


Nominations 2008 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award A Quiet Flame

2007


Nominations 2007 »

Award Nominated Nominated Work
CWA Ellis Peters Historical Dagger Award The One from the Other