汤姆·罗伯·史密斯

汤姆·罗伯·史密斯（英语：Tom Rob Smith；1979年2月19日—）是一位英国作家。

生平

史密斯在伦敦出生和长大，父亲是英国人，母亲是瑞典人。史密斯就读于剑桥大学圣约翰学院，2001年他毕业后，他获得了获得了奖学金到意大利大学继续他的创作研究。完成学业后，史密斯成为作家和字幕编辑员。2008年，他推出第一部小说《第44个孩子》，这本书旋即横扫了全球17项纯文学与大众文学奖，创下惊疑小说的新人处女作即受肯定的例子。他随即在翌年推出《第44个孩子》的二部曲《古拉格57》及于2011年推出三部曲《宾州大道935》。

著作

《第44个孩子》

《古拉格57》

《宾州大道935》

《the farm》

Tom Rob Smith (born February 19, 1979) is an English author, screenwriter and producer. He is best known as the author of Child 44, a novel about the investigation of child murders during the Soviet Union. The book was adapted into a film of the same name, and Smith has written two sequels: The Secret Speech and Agent 6. His first standalone novel, The Farm, was published in 2014.

Personal life and education

The son of Swedish mother Barbro and English father Ron, both antiques dealers, Smith was born and raised at Norbury, South London. He went to school at Dulwich College between the years of 1987 and 1997. Following his graduation from St John's College, Cambridge, in 2001, he received the Harper Wood Studentship for English Poetry and Literature and continued his Creative Writing studies for a year at the University of Pavia, in Italy. He was formerly the partner of Ben Stephenson.

Career

After completing his studies, Smith worked as a writer and a script editor, including a stint with the BBC. Among his projects was story-lining Cambodia's first soap opera, set in Phnom Penh.

His first novel, Child 44, published in early 2008, was inspired by the true-life case of Andrei Chikatilo, who committed a series of child murders in Soviet Russia. It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year by the Crime Writers' Association, named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, and nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award (former Whitbread). In July 2009, he won the Waverton Good Read Award for first novels and the Galaxy Book Award for Best Newcomer with Child 44. It has been translated into 36 languages and in January 2011, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan listed it in their Book Club "100 Books of the Decade". In 2007, Ridley Scott optioned the film rights.

Fox 2000 bought the project. A film based on the novel was announced in 2009, with Ridley Scott originally attached as both director and producer. The 2015 film was produced by Scott and his longtime production collaborator Michael Costigan, via Scott Free Productions, and directed by Daniel Espinosa. Child 44 stars Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Charles Dance, and Joel Kinnaman.

Smith's sequel to Child 44, The Secret Speech, was published in April 2009, and the final novel in the trilogy, Agent 6, was published in July 2011. Smith's fourth book, a standalone novel entitled The Farm, was published in February 2014.

Smith also wrote a drama television series, London Spy, which was first broadcast on BBC Two in November 2015.

Smith was selected as executive producer and writer for season 2 of American Crime Story, an FX true crime anthology series. It is titled The Assassination of Gianni Versace and explores the murder of designer Gianni Versace by serial killer Andrew Cunanan.