Quick Facts

Full Name	Peter May
Occupation	Journalist
Date Of Birth	Dec 20, 1951(1951-12-20)
Age	73
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Sagittarius

Peter May Biography

Peter May is one of the most popular and richest Journalist who was born on December 20, 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Peter May (born 20 December 1951) is an Scottish writer for television, novelist also a crime and thriller writer. Peter May has won writing awards across Europe as well as America. The Blackhouse was awarded an award called the U.S. Barry Award for Crime Novel of the Year and the nation’s literary award in France CEZAM Prix Litteraire. The Lewis Man won the French daily newspaper Le Telegramme’ s 10,000-euro Grand Prix for Lectors. This year, Entry Island received both the Deanston’s Scottish Crime Novel of the Year Award and the ITV’s UK’s Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year Award. May’s novels have sold over two million copies within the UK and more than a million globally.

The first books were released within the UK between 1999 and 2004, and then released worldwide in translation. The new editions were released in both the United States and UK in 2016/17, with the introduction of May that explains the context of the book.

After being turned down by all the major British publishers, The Blackhouse, the first book in ‘The Lewis Trilogy’, was published first in May’s adopted home of France in French translation at the end of 2009. The book was hailed as “a masterpiece” by the French daily newspaper L’Humanité and was immediately nominated for several literary awards in France. It won the Prix des Lecteurs at Le Havre’s Ancres Noires Festival in 2010 and won the French national literature award, the Cezam Prix Littéraire Inter CE at an award ceremony in Strasbourg in October 2011. The Blackhouse went on to be published all over Europe and was bought by British publishers Quercus who brought it out in February 2011. It is the first of three books to be set in the Outer Hebrides, an archipelago off the North West coast of Scotland.

The Blackhouse’ was chosen for the Richard & Judy Book Club autumn 2011 list.

Peter May was born in Glasgow. At an early age, he aspired to become an author, but decided to take the path of journalist in order to make an income from writing. He made his first real attempt in writing a novel around the age of 19 that he submitted to Collins which was then considered to Philip Ziegler, who wrote an extremely favorable rejection letter. At 21 years old he was awarded the Fraser Award and was named Scotland’s Young Journalist of the Year. He later went on to contribute stories his stories for The Scotsman and the Glasgow Evening Times. At the age 26 May’s first novel The Reporter, was published. May was invited to adapt the novel to a TV show in BBC, the British television network, the BBC Then she quit journalism in 1978 in order writing full-time for television.

Peter May Net Worth

Peter May is one of the richest Journalist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Peter May 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Runaway is a novel about crime inspired by Peter May’s own experiences of fleeing from home in Glasgow to seek success and fame in London together with an ensemble of musicians which he was a part of in the 1960s. The story is told via two narratives, one set in 1965 , where five teenagers set off on a trip that comes to an end with tragic results and the other one in 2015, when three of them return to their journey through Scotland back to London five decades later to find the culprit in a murder.

The novel written by May The Reporter became the prime-time 13-part television show The Standard in 1978. May created another important TV program for BBC, Squadron, a drama about members of an RAF swift deployment unit. Over the next 15 decades, May earned more than 1,000 credits on TV. He created and wrote important dramas for the BBC as well as the Independent Television Network in the UK including Machair that he co-created with Janice Hally for Scottish Television. The series that ran for a long time became the first significant TV drama made using Gaelic. Gaelic dialect and filmed entirely in the Isle of Lewis in the Outer Hebrides. The show was produced by May had an audience share of 33% and was regularly among the top ten of the ratings of Scotland despite being broadcast using English subtitles, as only 22% of the people within Scotland are Gaelic natives. While working on the television industry, May wrote the novels Hidden Faces (1981) and The Noble Path (1992) In 1996, May left television to create novels.

Peter May lives in France and his China Thrillers have received several nominations for awards in that country. In 2007 he won the Prix Intramuros. This prize is unique in France as it is awarded by juries of readers made up of prisoners in French penitentiaries. The books under consideration are reduced to a shortlist of 6 finalists and the authors of the shortlisted books then have to travel to various French prisons to be interviewed by panels of detainees. In 2007, May was the only non-French author in the shortlist. He received the prize at the annual Polar&Co literary festival in Cognac.

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Who is Peter May Dating?

According to our records, Peter May married to Janice Hally. As of December 1, 2023, Peter May’s is not dating anyone.

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Entry Island, Peter May’s first book after the Lewis Trilogy, won the Deanstons Scottish Crime Book of the Year 2014, the UK national prize, the Specsavers ITV Crime Thriller Book Club Best Read of the Year 2014 and the French Trophée 813 for the Best Foreign Crime Novel of the year 2015. The book is partly set on a remote island in modern-day Canada and partly set on the Isle of Lewis 150 years earlier during the Highland Clearances.

Facts & Trivia

Peter Ranked on the list of most popular Journalist. Also ranked in the elit list of famous people born in United Kingdom. Peter May celebrates birthday on December 20 of every year.

In April 2016, after 15 years of living full-time in France and a connection with the department of the Lot that goes back more than 40 years, May was welcomed as a French citizen at a ceremony of naturalisation by Catherine Ferrier, the Préfète of the Lot.

What order do you read Peter May books?

TitlePublished

3| The Man with No Face / Hidden Faces| 1981
4| The Noble Path| 1992
5| Virtually Dead| 2010
6| Entry Island| 2013

What TV series did Peter may create?

He created two major BBC TV series, The Standard and Squadron , and in the 1980s was storyliner and script editor on Take the High Road, a period in which the popular drama serial achieved record audience figures. In the 1990s, he created and produced the much-praised Gaelic drama serial, Machair.

Who wrote the Lewis trilogy?

Peter May

Is the Lewis trilogy a TV series?

The BBC have optioned Peter May’s Lewis Trilogy for a new drama series. According to the author, the broadcaster has optioned the crime trilogy, published by Quercus, to create three two-hour films for BBC4, with an adaptation of the first book in the series, The Blackhouse, currently under development.

Do you have to read Ann Cleeves books in order?

Reading the Ann Cleeves books in order is a great way to get into her novels. The suspenseful and atmospheric thrillers are perfect for a cold winter night when you want to curl up with a good book. Cleeves is famously known for her Shetland Island and Vera Stanhope series.