Alan Judd
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Alan Judd | |
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| Birth name | Alan Edwin Petty |
| Born | 1946 (age 79–80) |
| Allegiance | United Kingdom |
| Other work | Diplomat, security analyst, and writer |
Alan Judd (born 1946) is a pseudonym used by Alan Edwin Petty.[1] Born in 1946, he is a former soldier and diplomat who now works as a security analyst and writer in the United Kingdom. He writes both books and articles, regularly contributing to a number of publications, including The Daily Telegraph, the Spectator and The Oldie. His books include both fiction and non-fiction titles, with his novels often drawing on his military background.
Fiction Titles
[edit | edit source]Charles Thoroughgood novels:
- A Breed of Heroes (1981 – adapted by Charles Wood as a BBC television film in 1996)
- Legacy (2001)
- Uncommon Enemy (2012)
- Inside Enemy (2014)
- Deep Blue (2017)
- Accidental Agent (2019)
- Queen and Country (2022)
Other novels:
- Short of Glory (1984)
- The Noonday Devil (1987)
- Tango (1989)
- The Devil's Own Work (1991)
- The Kaiser's Last Kiss (2003)
- Dancing with Eva (2006)
- Slipstream (2015)
- Shakespeare's Sword (2018)
- A Fine Madness (2021)
Non fiction Titles
[edit | edit source]- Ford Madox Ford (1990)
- First World War Poets (Character Sketches) (1997)
- The Quest for C: Mansfield Cumming And the Founding of the Secret Service (1999)[2]
Awards and honours
[edit | edit source]- A Breed of Heroes won the 1981 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize.
- Elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, 1990.[3]
- In 1991, he won the Guardian Fiction Award for his book The Devil's Own Work.
References
[edit | edit source]- ^ Project MUSE – An Interview with Alan Judd Retrieved 2012-01-02.
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External links
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- 1946 births
- 20th-century English novelists
- 21st-century English novelists
- English biographers
- Living people
- Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature
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- 20th-century English male writers
- 21st-century English male writers
- English male non-fiction writers
- British male biographers
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