Tom McCarthy (writer)

Tom McCarthy (born 1969 ) is an English writer and lives in London.

Life

Tom McCarthy studied English Literature at New College (Oxford). After a few years in Prague in the early 1990s, he lived in Amsterdam and was an editor at Time Out Magazine. Later he worked as a script writer for television and was co-editor of Mute magazine.

His first, in 2005 published novel Remainder, in the UK and in the U.S. was a few weeks on the bestseller list. In June 2008, this novel won the Believer Book Award and is currently being filmed by Film4/Cowboy film. Remainder has been translated into eleven languages ​​and appeared in March 2009 in German. His second novel, Men in Space was released in 2007, his third C 2010.

Tintin and the Secret of Literature is a literary theory work, which appeared in 2006 and has also been translated into several languages. McCarthy has published several short stories, essays and articles on literature, philosophy and art, and held lectures at various institutions, such as at the Architectural Association, the Royal College of Art or at the Southern California Institute of Architecture.

In addition, McCarthy is Secretary General of the semi- fictitious avant-garde network Necronautical International Society, which he founded with Simon Critchley.

Works

• Navigation What Always a Difficult Art, London 2002
• Calling All Agents, London 2003
• Remainder, Paris 2005 German: 8 1/ 2 million. Diaphanes, Zurich 2009, ISBN 978-3-03734-187-2

• German: Tintin and the Secret of Literature. Blumenbar, Berlin 2010, ISBN 978-3-936738-61-2

• German: K. German publishing house, Munich 2012, ISBN 978-3-421-04489-1