Chris Cleave

Chris Cleave (born 1973 in London) is a British journalist and writer.

Chris Cleave grew up in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire. After his studies in Psychology at Balliol College, Oxford, he is also had worked as a bartender, deep sea sailor and journalist, has taught marine navigation and founded an internet company.

His debut novel Incendiary ( German title: Dear Osama ) appeared in 20 countries and was made ​​into a film starring Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor.

His second book The Other Hand ( German title: Little Bee) appeared nominated in 2008 in the UK and for the Costa Book Awards. The following year it was published under the title Little Bee in the U.S. and Canada. The novel is filmed by Blossom Films in cooperation with BBC film starring Nicole Kidman.

Chris Cleave continues to write for the English newspaper The Guardian and lives with his wife and three children in London.

Prizes and awards

  • 2006: Somerset Maugham Award for Incendiary
  • 2006: proposed list of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize also for Incendiary
  • 2008: Vorschlagslistefür the award of the Costa Book Awards for The Other Hand

Works

  • Incendiary. 2005th German: Dear Osama. , 2006.
  • The other hand., 2008. German: Little Bee, from the English by Susanne Goga - Klinkenberg, dtv, München 2010, ISBN 978-3-423-24819-8.

Audiobooks

  • Little Bee. Read by Britta Steffen Hagen, Sarah Everything, The Audio Publishers (DAV ), Berlin, 2011, ISBN 978-3-86231-068-5 ( Reading, 5 CDs, 375 min)
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