David Young (novelist), Date of Birth, Place of Birth

David Young (novelist)

British novelist

Date of Birth: 27-May-1958

Place of Birth: Kingston upon Hull, England, United Kingdom

Profession: writer, journalist, novelist

Nationality: United Kingdom

Zodiac Sign: Gemini

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David John Young (born 27 May 1958) is an English novelist whose award-winning crime thriller series featuring a fictional Volkspolizei detective, Karin Müller, is set in 1970s East Germany. Young's debut novel Stasi Child won the 2016 CWA Endeavour Historical Dagger for the best historical crime novel of the year.
Both it and the follow-up, Stasi Wolf, were longlisted for the Theakston's Old Peculier Crime Novel of the Year Award in 2016 and 2017 respectively.
In 2017, Bonnier Zaffre, the UK adult fiction division of the Bonnier Group, announced Young had signed a six-figure deal for three further novels in the series, making five in all, with the third, A Darker State, being published in February 2018.
Young says the inspiration for the series came after his indie pop band The Candy Twins toured Germany in 2007 and he read Anna Funder's non-fiction book Stasiland between gigs.
He secured the tour thanks to favourable comments made by Edwyn Collins about a tribute song Young wrote about him.
Before becoming a full-time novelist, Young was a news producer and editor for more than 25 years with BBC World Service radio and BBC World TV.