Edward Docx

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Ed Docx (2017)

Edward Docx (born 1972 in Newcastle ) is a British journalist and writer.

Life

Edward Docx is the oldest of seven children in a family with family secrets. He attended St Bede's College in Manchester and studied literature at Christ's College , Cambridge . Docx has been working as a journalist ever since, writing book reviews, among other things.

After his highly acclaimed debut novel The Calligrapher in 2003, the second novel Self Help made it onto the longlist of the Man Booker Prize in 2007 and also received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize .

Docx wrote an adaptation of Gogol's The Nose for the theater . He is co-editor of Prospect magazine .

Docx lives in South London with his wife and children.

Works (selection)

  • The calligrapher . London: Fourth Estate, 2003
    • The calligrapher: Roman . Translation by Gabriele Gockel and Robert A. Weiß. Bergisch Gladbach: BLT, 2007 ISBN 978-3-404-92251-2
  • Self Help . London: Picador, 2007 (title on the Pravda US market )
  • The Devil's Garden . London: Picador, 2011
  • Let go my hand . London: Picador, 2017

literature

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ The man my mother thought was her father was in fact her half-brother. Edward Docx: It was a dark and stormy night , in: The Guardian , July 21, 2007
  2. ↑ Edward Docx , articles in Prospect
personal data
SURNAME Docx, Edward
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1972
PLACE OF BIRTH Newcastle