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Greg Dinner

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Greg Dinner grew up in Colorado, studied in New York, Paris and London before moving to Los Angeles to work in film. In 1984 he settled in London, where he was a film executive, produced screenwriter in film and television and lecturer in film and ethics at several film schools throughout the world. ‘A Murmuration of Starlings’ and ‘Narcissus in Utero’, published by Ogham and Dabar Books on Amazon, are the first two noir/mystery novels of the ‘Shadow Wolf’ noir series, originally developed for a television series of the same name.

In a departure from the Shadow Wolf series, his third novel, ‘A Requiem for Hania’ inspired by a true story of the Warsaw Ghetto and set in Warsaw over three generations from 1938-2008, was published in hardback o
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After exploring an idea for six years to find the story wanted to tell I have now more than 100 pages in on a third novel. Tells a story of identity, loss, pain, love, set in Warsaw in 1938, 1968, 2008. A difficult, sometimes painful book to write, but that totally consumes me. This was inspired by a true story. Structuring it in specific musical form of the requiem. Am particularly inspired by so Read more of this blog post »
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