Philip Hensher

Philip Michael Hensher (born February 20, 1965 in London ) is an English novelist, critic and journalist.

Life

Hensher was born in south London but spent his childhood and youth in Sheffield and attended the Tapton School . He attended Lady Margaret Hall Oxford before earning a PhD in 18th Century Art and Literature History from Cambridge . He also worked as an assistant in the House of Commons . He has published several novels and works as an editor and book award judge. In addition to articles for the literary magazine Granta , he also comments on literary topics in The Guardian and The Independent .

Since 2005 he has been teaching creative writing at the University of Exeter .

Philip Hensher is openly gay and was listed as one of the 100 Most Influential LGBT people in the UK in 2006 .

An autobiographical novel ( The Northern Clemency ) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 2008 .

Works (selection)

• Other Lulus (1994) - German: Die other Lulu, Düsseldorf: Econ 1996, ISBN 978-3-612-27209-6
• Powder Her Face (1995) libretto for the opera. Music: Thomas Adès
• Kitchen Venom (1996)
• Pleasured (1998) - German: The city behind the wall, Berlin: Argon 1999, translated by Ruth Keen; ISBN 978-3-87024-497-2
• The Mulberry Empire (2002)
• The Fit (2004)
• The Northern Clemency (2008)
• The Bedroom of the Mister's Wife (1999)
• Selected Essays (2006)
• Tales of Persuasion . Short stories. Fourth Estate, 2016

Web links

• Literature by and about Philip Hensher in the catalog of the German National Library
• Literature by and about Philip Hensher in the WorldCat bibliographic database
• Interview with Philip Hensher at Mostlyfiction

Single receipts

1. ^ Memorandum from Dr Philip Hensher, FRSL, to the House of Commons Select Committee on Education and Employment, October 1998
2. ^ The Independent , (July 2, 2006), Gay Power: The pink list . Retrieved June 25, 2007.