Adam Thirlwell
Adam Thirlwell (born August 22, 1978 in London ) is a British writer and literary scholar.
Life
Thirlwell was educated at the private Haberdashers 'Aske's Boys' School in Elstree and then went to New College , Oxford to study English . There he received various awards for his essays and achieved an excellent final exam. He was then elected a Fellow of All Souls College , Oxford. During this time he was co-editor of the British literary magazine Areté . In 2011 he was Samuel Fischer visiting professor for literature at the Free University of Berlin .
His first novel from 2003, Politics , caused a sensation and was published in Germany in 2004. His collection of quotes from other books Miss Herbert , however, was controversial among British critics. His 2015 novel Lurid & Cute has been nominated for the Goldsmiths Prize .
honors and awards
- 2003 and 2013: Granta Award Best of Young British Novelists .
- 2008: Somerset Maugham Award for Miss Herbert .
Works
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Politics: A Novel . Fourth Estate, New York City, USA 2003, ISBN 0-007163665 .
- Strategy . Roman, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-080048-6 .
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Miss Herbert or The Delighted States: a Book of Novels, Romances, & Their Unknown Translators, Containing Ten Languages, Set on Four Continents, & Accompanied by Maps, ... & a Variety of Helpful Indexes , Jonathan Cape, London 2007.
- The multiple novel. Past and future adventures of novel art located on almost every continent, in ten languages & with a gigantic ensemble of writers, translators and other fantasy creatures . Hannah Arnold in Romanian. S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-080049-7 .
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The Escape: a novel in five parts . London: Vintage Books, 2010
- Fleeting: Roman . S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2010, ISBN 978-3-10-080050-3 .
- Kapow! . London, Visual Editions 2012, ISBN 978-0-9565692-3-3 .
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Lurid and Cute . Farrar, Straus & Giroux, New York City, USA 2015, ISBN 978-0-374292256
- Bright & sweet. Novel . Translation Tobias Schnettler. S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main, 2015
Web links
- Literature by and about Adam Thirlwell in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about Adam Thirlwell in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Short biography and reviews of works by Adam Thirlwell at perlentaucher.de
- Adam Mars-Jones: Meet the shameless Adam Bovary , in The Guardian , Nov. 4, 2014
- Adam Thirlwell , at the Berlin International Literature Festival
Individual evidence
- ↑ Goldsmiths book prize shortlist: Lennon, Jesus and life at the edges , The Guardian October 1, 2015, accessed October 22, 2015
- ↑ Alex Preston : Bad guy of suburbia . Review, in: Financial Times , January 17, 2015, p. 11
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Thirlwell, Adam |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer and literary scholar |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 22, 1978 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | London , England |