Chris Power
Chris Power is a British writer and literary critic for The Guardian.
He was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire.[1] He studied English and American literature at Swansea University, graduating in 1998.[2]
He has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director.[1]
Power has been writing a regular column for The Guardian about the short story as a literary form since 2007.[3] He has also presented the BBC Radio Four programme Open Book.[1]
He has cited Roberto Bolaño and Denis Johnson as literary influences.[1]
Power's first book of short stories, Mothers: Stories, was published in 2018 in Britain and in 2019 in the United States.[4]
His first novel, A Lonely Man, was published in April 2021.[5]
Power is married with two daughters and lives in London.[1]
References
- ^ a b c d e "Guardian 03 April 2021" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/03/chris-power-you-burn-reality-to-fuel-the-fiction
- ^ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisjohnpower
- ^ Hurlburt, Ann (January 2019). "Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers". The Atlantic.
- Rosen, Christine (May 2019). "Mothers: Stories (brief review)". Commentary. - ^ McAloon, Jonathan (30 June 2018). "Mothers (book review)". The Spectator.
- Thomas-Kennedy, Jackie (25 January 2019). "Review: 'Mothers: Stories,' by Chris Power". Star-Tribune. Retrieved 8 May 2019. - ^ https://www.faber.co.uk/catalog/product/view/id/7874/s/9780571341214-a-lonely-man/