2018.06.24 玛蒂娜-科尔是一位英国犯罪作家

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Martina Cole is a British crime writer, known to her fans as the Queen of Crime.

Martina has written 24 novels, 15 of which have topped the original fiction sales charts - more than any other author. She has sold more than 16 million books around the world, and her work has been translated into 29 languages. She also works in prisons, leading reading schemes and writing workshops for prisoners.

Martina grew up in Essex, the youngest of five children born to Irish parents. She was expelled from her convent school at 15 for reading a book by Harold Robbins. She married at 16, divorced at 17 and then had a baby at the age of 18. She wrote stories and scripts in her spare time to amuse herself, whilst taking on a series of low-paid jobs, including cleaning, waitressing, stacking shelves and leafletting.

At the age of 31, she re-discovered one of her early attempts at a novel, and decided to send it to an agent. She chose Darley Anderson from the Writers' and Artists' Yearbook because she liked the sound of the name. He quickly contacted her and told her she would be a star. He was right: she received an advance of £150,000, then a record for a first time novelist. She has written a best-selling crime novel almost every year ever since.



玛蒂娜-科尔是一位英国犯罪作家，被她的粉丝称为犯罪女王。

玛蒂娜写了24部小说，其中15部在原创小说销售排行榜上名列前茅--比任何其他作家都要多。她已在世界各地销售了1600多万本书，她的作品已被翻译成29种语言。她还在监狱工作，领导为囚犯举办的阅读计划和写作研讨会。

玛蒂娜在埃塞克斯长大，是爱尔兰父母所生五个孩子中最小的一个。她15岁时因阅读哈罗德-罗宾斯的书被修道院学校开除。她16岁结婚，17岁离婚，然后在18岁时生了一个孩子。她在业余时间写故事和剧本以自娱自乐，同时从事一系列低薪工作，包括清洁、服务员、堆放货架和发传单。

31岁时，她重新发现了自己早期尝试的一部小说，并决定将其寄给一个经纪人。她从《作家和艺术家年鉴》中选择了达利-安德森，因为她喜欢这个名字的发音。他很快与她联系，告诉她她会成为一个明星。他是对的：她收到了15万英镑的预付款，当时对第一次写小说的人来说是一个记录。此后，她几乎每年都写一部最畅销的犯罪小说。