The Donald Windham Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prizes
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Edition 1 (2013) Winner
Tom McCarthy
トム・マッカーシー
Tom McCarthy
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1969-01-01 （London, England）
- Nationality
- British, Swedish
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Greenwich, London → Prague, Czech Republic → Amsterdam, Netherlands → Berlin, Germany
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, writer, artist
- Active Years
- 2001-
- Affiliations
- Santa Fe Institute (Miller Scholar), International Necronautical Society (INS)
- Memberships
- International Necronautical Society (co-founder; General Secretary)
- Influenced By
- Georges Bataille, Alain Robbe-Grillet, T. S. Eliot, William S. Burroughs, Jean Cocteau
- Nominations
- 2010 Man Booker Prize shortlisted (C), 2015 Man Booker Prize shortlisted (Satin Island)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Dulwich College | — | Secondary education | — | 1978–1986 | United Kingdom |
| New College, Oxford | — | English Literature | 学士 | 1986–1991 | United Kingdom |
Dulwich College
Secondary education
Period:
1978–1986
Year of Graduation:
1986
Country:
United Kingdom
New College, Oxford
English Literature
Degree:
学士
Period:
1986–1991
Year of Graduation:
1991
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | Believer Book Award | Remainder | — | The Believer | winner |
| 2013 | Windham–Campbell Literature Prize | — | Fiction | Yale University | winner |
| 2010 | Man Booker Prize (shortlist) | C | — | Booker Prize | shortlisted |
| 2015 | Man Booker Prize (shortlist) | Satin Island | — | Booker Prize | shortlisted |
Believer Book Award
2008
Work:
Remainder
Organization:
The Believer
Result:
winner
Windham–Campbell Literature Prize
2013
Category:
Fiction
Organization:
Yale University
Result:
winner
Man Booker Prize (shortlist)
2010
Work:
C
Organization:
Booker Prize
Result:
shortlisted
Man Booker Prize (shortlist)
2015
Work:
Satin Island
Organization:
Booker Prize
Result:
shortlisted
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Remainder
2005 Experimental fiction / Contemporary novelAn unnamed protagonist traumatised by an accident obsessively reconstructs and re-enacts remembered scenes to regain a sense of authenticity; these re-enactments progressively become more violent.
repetitionauthenticitytraumareenactment
Adaptations
- [Film] Remainder / Omer Fast (2015)
Translations
- Japanese edition
- French edition
- German edition
Men in Space
2007 Novel (post-Cold War ensemble)Set amid post-Communist Central Europe, a cast of characters chase a stolen icon painting across borders; themes of duplication and repetition recur throughout.
duplicationfragmented historyhuman drift
Translations
- Greek edition
- French edition
C
2010 Historical-modernist novel / ExperimentalFollowing Serge Carrefax from turn-of-the-century England through World War I as a radio operator, the novel explores technology and mourning.
technology and communicationmourningmodernity
Translations
- English edition
Satin Island
2015 Novel (contemporary anthropological fiction)An anthropologist known as 'U.' works for 'the Company' attempting to craft a master story about contemporary life; the novel blends satire with theoretical observation.
describing contemporary lifeinformation and narrativecorporate culture
The Making of Incarnation
2021 NovelA search for a fictional missing archival item (Box 808) that interrogates relationships between humans and technology through industrial imagery.
memory and archiveshistory of technologyindustrial aesthetics
Bibliography
- Remainder (2005)
- Men in Space (2007)
- C (2010)
- Tintin and the Secret of Literature (2006, non-fiction)
- Satin Island (2015)
- Typewriters, Bombs, Jellyfish: Essays (2017)
- The Making of Incarnation (2021)
- Transmission and the Individual Remix (2012)
Adaptations
- Remainder (2015) - film directed by Omer Fast
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- experimental, theory-inflected prosefragmentary and repetitive structuresdetached and satirical observation
- Recurring Motifs
- repetition and reenactmentduplication and doublingcommunication and radiotechnology and failed transcendence
Legacy
Tom McCarthy is regarded as an important contemporary writer whose experimental novels and art projects have foregrounded themes of repetition, communication and technology. He gained international attention with Remainder and has been shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize multiple times, marking him as a significant figure in 21st-century English literature.
Museums
- Arts Council Collection England
Quotes
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“a work of novelistic philosophy, as disturbing as it is funny.”
Source: The New York Times (book review) (2007)
Trivia
- His father is Sir Callum McCarthy, a civil servant in the financial sector.
- Reportedly acquired Swedish citizenship after Brexit.
- Has lived and worked in Prague, Amsterdam and Berlin in addition to London.