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Adam Thirlwell

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Adam Thirlwell

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1978-08-22
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Residence History
London → Oxford → Berlin

Career

Occupations
novelist, editor
Active Years
2003-2024
Affiliations
The Paris Review (advisory editor), Royal Society of Literature (Fellow)
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
Nominations
Encore Award shortlist (The Escape, 2009), Orwell Prize for Political Fiction shortlist (The Future Future, 2024), Premio Gregor von Rezzori shortlist (The Future Future, 2025)

Education

Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School
Country: United Kingdom
New College, Oxford
Faculty of English
Degree: BA (First Class)
Period: 1990年代後半
Year of Graduation: 2000
Country: United Kingdom
top first
All Souls College, Oxford
Degree: Prize Fellow
Period: 2000-2007
Country: United Kingdom
Prize Fellow

Awards

Betty Trask Award
2003
Work: Politics
Organization: Society of Authors
Result: winner
Somerset Maugham Award
2008
Work: Miss Herbert
Result: winner
E.M. Forster Award
2015
Organization: American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result: winner

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

Politics

2003 novel
Translations
  • translated into thirty languages

The Escape

2009 novel

Lurid & Cute

2015 novel

The Future Future

2023 novel

Bibliography

  • Politics (2003), The Escape (2009), Lurid & Cute (2015), The Future Future (2023), Miss Herbert (2007), Kapow! (2012)

Translations of Works

  • works translated into thirty languages

Style & Themes

Literary Style
experimentaltranslation-focusedmultilingual
Recurring Motifs
humour and melancholypolitics

Legacy

Twice named in Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, received E.M. Forster Award, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.