2013.07.14 作家Val McDermid

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Released On: 14 Jul 2013Available for over a year
The writer, Val McDermid, is interviewed by Kirsty Young for Desert Island Discs.

Crime fiction is Val's chosen genre and the millions of novels she sells examine and dissect the darkest recesses of human behaviour. Domestic violence, murder, abduction - it's difficult to imagine a subject she'd shy away from. She once described herself as "A mixture of hard bitten cynical hack and Pollyanna".

Brought up in a secure home by parents who were very happily married, she was the first Scot from a state school to win a place at St Hilda's college, Oxford. She was just 16. After graduation she chose tabloid journalism as her trade and by all accounts fitted right in with the hard working, bolshy, boozing culture at the time.

She says "I think there are three elements to any literary career. You have to have a modicum of talent, you've got to work hard . and you've got to be lucky."



发行日期：2013年7月14日发行时间：一年以上
作家Val McDermid接受了Kirsty Young在 "荒岛光盘 "节目中的采访。

犯罪小说是瓦尔选择的类型，她销售的数百万部小说审视和剖析了人类行为的最黑暗角落。家庭暴力、谋杀、绑架--很难想象她会回避什么主题。她曾将自己描述为 "咬牙切齿的愤世嫉俗的黑客和波利安娜的混合物"。

她在一个安全的家庭中长大，父母的婚姻非常幸福，她是第一个从公立学校赢得牛津大学圣希尔达学院名额的苏格兰人。她当时只有16岁。毕业后，她选择了小报新闻作为她的职业，而且从各方面来看，她与当时勤奋工作、放荡不羁、酗酒的文化相适应。

她说："我认为任何文学事业都有三个要素。你必须有一定的天赋，你必须努力工作，你必须幸运。