Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell ( born August 22, 1978) is a British writer and literary critic of Jewish descent.

Life

Thirlwell was educated at the private Haberdashers ' Aske 's Boys ' School in Elstree and then went to study English language at New College, Oxford. He has been variously honored for his essays and achieved an excellent final exam. Subsequently, he was 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 S. Fischer Guest Professor of Comparative Literature at the Free University of Berlin.

His first novel in 2003, Politics and Strategy, attracting attention and was relocated in 2004 in Germany. His collection of " quotations " from other books Miss Herbert, however, was controversial among British critics.

Honors and Awards

• 2003 and 2013: Award Granta Best of Young British Novelists.
• 2008: Somerset Maugham Award for Miss Herbert.

Works

• Strategy. Roman, S. Fischer Verlag, Frankfurt am Main 2004, ISBN 3-10-080048-6; ( Original title: Politics, 2003).
• Miss Herbert and 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. German by Hannah Arnold: Miss Herbert, or multiple novel. Past and future adventures of the novel situates art on almost every continent, in ten languages ​​& with ... S. Fischer, Frankfurt am Main, 2013, ISBN 978-3-10-080049-7.