![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() The critical and commercial success of his second novel, His Bloody Project (2015), allowed him to start his career as a full-time writer. After graduation from Glasgow University, he spent much of the 1990s teaching English as a foreign language in Czechoslovakia, France and Portugal, before going back to university in 1999, this time taking a degree in international security studies at the University of St Andrews, after which he worked as a researcher for independent television documentary makers (D. Robinson 2016) and that during his university studies of English the writer in residence, Hunter Steele, encouraged him to try to get some of his stories published (Major 2017), his path to writing fiction was a lengthy one. Although Burnet claims that he had wanted to be a professional writer ever since he was a teenager (D. This book received favourable reviews but it could hardly be described as a conspicuous breakthrough (Forshaw 2016). 1967) was an unfamiliar name in literary circles until 2013, when he won The Scottish Book Trust New Writers Award for his first novel, The Disappearance of Adèle Bedeau (2014), a metafictional detective mystery story set in France. ![]()
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