Salma El-Sharkawy |
British author, writer, and director, born in Scotland. He moved to London to become a writer. The BBC broadcast his play "A Knight in Tarnished Armor" in 1965. He published his first novel, A Green Tree in Ged, in 1965 and won the Scottish Arts Council Prize in 1967. Following his move to Hollywood, he developed an interest in writing detective films in the 1980s, with the majority of his screenplays destined for American television productions. His most important works include The Last Hit (1993), Little Girl Fly Away (1998), Avenger (2006), and Reversible Errors (2004). He died on February 8, 2013 in Los Angeles, United States.
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