Daniel Silva

Daniel Silva is, for me, one of the most disciplined thriller writers working. Trained as a journalist before fiction, and you feel that reporter's rigor in his Gabriel Allon spy series, the art-restorer-and-Mossad-agent hook that should feel gimmicky but doesn't. Two Barry Awards for Best Thriller confirm he's more than a beach-read machine. What I admire most is the annual cadence: a Michigan-born, Fresno State graduate quietly producing a polished book a year for decades. That consistency is its own kind of genius, harder than the occasional masterpiece. Allon aged in real time, which gave the whole series unusual emotional weight.

Name (English)

Daniel Silva

Name (Japanese)

ダニエル・シルバ

Reading

だにえる・しるば

Born

December 19, 1960 (age 65)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Sagittarius / Rat

Origin

Michigan, United States

Occupation

writer / journalist / novelist / crime fiction writer

University

California State University, Fresno

Awards & achievements

• 2007 Barry Award for Best Thriller
• 2013 Barry Award for Best Thriller

• Official sitehttps://danielsilvabooks.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daniel%20Silva%20(novelist)
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%80%E3%83%8B%E3%82%A8%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%B7%E3%83%AB%E3%83%B4%E3%82%A1
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q712596

Tags

• Michigan
• writer
• journalist
• novelist

Last updated

2026-06-02

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