雷金纳德·希尔：终身成就的侦探小说家
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Reginald Charles Hill was born in 1936, in West Hartlepool
in Northern England. His mother, Isabel née Dickson
(1907–98) was a factory worker who loved Golden-Age
crime writing, and his father was a professional football (soccer) player at a time
when sportsmen were poorly paid, so his background was very proletarian but
reading was privileged. The family moved to the Lake District in 1939, and Hill
later attended Carlisle Grammar School, from which he won a place to read English
at St Catherine’s College in Oxford. He did National Service without distinction or
danger 1955–7, went up in 1957, graduated in 1960, and immediately married his
childhood sweetheart, Patricia Ruell.
© Reginald Hill
After some odd jobs Hill became a teacher, in Essex (1962–7) and then at
Doncaster College of Further Education, in Yorkshire (1967–81), where he rose to
Senior Lecturer before becoming a full-time writer in 1981. Hill had begun writing
prose fiction in the mid-1960s, and from 1970 published prolifically, producing (to
date) more than 50 novels and collections of short stories under four names. In
addition to the 20 Dalziel & Pascoe novels, Hill writes superior stand-alone crime
and supernatural tales, while ‘Patrick Ruell’ has written eight thrillers, ‘Charles
Underhill’ two historical romances, and ‘Dick Morland’ (in Hill’s early days) two
political thrillers. All the work is enjoyable, and from the mid-1970s increasingly
substantive as well as richly comic and intertextual, so that Hill’s career as a whole
strongly bears out his avowed intention of writing crime novels to high literary
standards.
Since retiring from teaching at 45 Hill has preferred to let his books do the
talking, but he has over the years published a number of critical essays and
introductions that reveal a wise, wry, and thoughtful critic of his chosen genre/s.
There are also some excellent interviews, but Hill is also a wise, wry, and very
elusive interviewee, who sensibly prefers not to analyse himself when others have
such fun doing it for him. He now lives in the Lake District, is a keen fell-walker,
and remains, as he has always been, an avid reader
雷金纳德•查尔斯•希尔1936年生于英格兰北部的西哈特尔普尔。他的母亲闺名叫伊莎贝尔•迪克森（1907-1998），是个工人。她很喜欢黄金时代的侦探小说。他父亲是个职业足球运动员，但那个时候他们的报酬还很低。所以希尔可以说是出身于非常典型的无产阶级，但他从小就博览群书。1939年他家搬到了英格兰西北部的湖区，希尔上了卡莱尔文法学校。从那里他考上了牛津的声凯瑟琳学院英语专业。期间（1955-57），他参军两年，并没有什么特别经历。1960年他毕业后立刻和青梅竹马的帕特里夏•儒勒结婚了。
做了几份短工之后，他最终当上了教师，先在埃塞克斯，后来是在约克郡的唐卡斯特继续教育学院任教，慢慢升至高级讲师。1981年，他提前退休，当上了全职作家。其实他在六十年代中期就开始写作了，七十年代即开始大量出版作品，至今已经有五十多部小说和四部短篇小说集。除了20本狄埃尔和帕斯科系列小说外，希尔还写了很多其他独立的侦探故事机神魔故事。他用“帕德里克•儒勒”的名字写了八个惊悚故事，用“查尔斯•安德希尔”的名字写了两篇历史故事，“迪克•莫兰”（早期）的名字写了两个政治冒险故事。这些作品都饶有趣味。而且从七十年代后就越来越轻松、真实，而且涵盖丰富。而希尔德写作生涯也从原来专注的侦探小说上升到了高度的文学境界。
自打45岁退休时起，希尔就一直主要致力于自己的书来表达，但他也谢了一系列评介性文章，表现出了他对于所选话题的机智、辛辣和缜密。希尔也是个机智、辛辣、难以琢磨的受访者，他总能敏感的躲开人们对他兴致勃勃的分析。他现在居住在英格兰湖区，喜欢爬山，仍然保持着一个积极的阅读习惯。
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Reginald Charles Hill was born in 1936, in West Hartlepool
in Northern England. His mother, Isabel née Dickson
(1907–98) was a factory worker who loved Golden-Age
crime writing, and his father was a professional football (soccer) player at a time
when sportsmen were poorly paid, so his background was very proletarian but
reading was privileged. The family moved to the Lake District in 1939, and Hill
later attended Carlisle Grammar School, from which he won a place to read English
at St Catherine’s College in Oxford. He did National Service without distinction or
danger 1955–7, went up in 1957, graduated in 1960, and immediately married his
childhood sweetheart, Patricia Ruell.
© Reginald Hill
After some odd jobs Hill became a teacher, in Essex (1962–7) and then at
Doncaster College of Further Education, in Yorkshire (1967–81), where he rose to
Senior Lecturer before becoming a full-time writer in 1981. Hill had begun writing
prose fiction in the mid-1960s, and from 1970 published prolifically, producing (to
date) more than 50 novels and collections of short stories under four names. In
addition to the 20 Dalziel & Pascoe novels, Hill writes superior stand-alone crime
and supernatural tales, while ‘Patrick Ruell’ has written eight thrillers, ‘Charles
Underhill’ two historical romances, and ‘Dick Morland’ (in Hill’s early days) two
political thrillers. All the work is enjoyable, and from the mid-1970s increasingly
substantive as well as richly comic and intertextual, so that Hill’s career as a whole
strongly bears out his avowed intention of writing crime novels to high literary
standards.
Since retiring from teaching at 45 Hill has preferred to let his books do the
talking, but he has over the years published a number of critical essays and
introductions that reveal a wise, wry, and thoughtful critic of his chosen genre/s.
There are also some excellent interviews, but Hill is also a wise, wry, and very
elusive interviewee, who sensibly prefers not to analyse himself when others have
such fun doing it for him. He now lives in the Lake District, is a keen fell-walker,
and remains, as he has always been, an avid reader
雷金纳德•查尔斯•希尔1936年生于英格兰北部的西哈特尔普尔。他的母亲闺名叫伊莎贝尔•迪克森（1907-1998），是个工人。她很喜欢黄金时代的侦探小说。他父亲是个职业足球运动员，但那个时候他们的报酬还很低。所以希尔可以说是出身于非常典型的无产阶级，但他从小就博览群书。1939年他家搬到了英格兰西北部的湖区，希尔上了卡莱尔文法学校。从那里他考上了牛津的声凯瑟琳学院英语专业。期间（1955-57），他参军两年，并没有什么特别经历。1960年他毕业后立刻和青梅竹马的帕特里夏•儒勒结婚了。
做了几份短工之后，他最终当上了教师，先在埃塞克斯，后来是在约克郡的唐卡斯特继续教育学院任教，慢慢升至高级讲师。1981年，他提前退休，当上了全职作家。其实他在六十年代中期就开始写作了，七十年代即开始大量出版作品，至今已经有五十多部小说和四部短篇小说集。除了20本狄埃尔和帕斯科系列小说外，希尔还写了很多其他独立的侦探故事机神魔故事。他用“帕德里克•儒勒”的名字写了八个惊悚故事，用“查尔斯•安德希尔”的名字写了两篇历史故事，“迪克•莫兰”（早期）的名字写了两个政治冒险故事。这些作品都饶有趣味。而且从七十年代后就越来越轻松、真实，而且涵盖丰富。而希尔德写作生涯也从原来专注的侦探小说上升到了高度的文学境界。
自打45岁退休时起，希尔就一直主要致力于自己的书来表达，但他也谢了一系列评介性文章，表现出了他对于所选话题的机智、辛辣和缜密。希尔也是个机智、辛辣、难以琢磨的受访者，他总能敏感的躲开人们对他兴致勃勃的分析。他现在居住在英格兰湖区，喜欢爬山，仍然保持着一个积极的阅读习惯。
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