Adam Thirlwell - Biography

Adam Thirlwell (born 1978) is a British novelist. He was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He is assistant editor of Areté, an arts tri-quarterly. He also writes a column for Esquire magazine.

As an undergraduate (reading English) at New College, Oxford, he won several essay prizes and excelled in his final-year exams. He was subsequently elected Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford.

In 2003 he published his first novel, Politics, and was included in Granta's list of the twenty best young British novelists. Politics attracted extensive and mainly positive media coverage. For instance, in The Independent, Matt Thorne pronounced it "a fascinating debut novel", stating that the book "deserves your immediate attention".

In 2007 Thirlwell published a second book, Miss Herbert. A work of non-fiction, it came in for some heavy criticism, notably by Adam Mars-Jones in The Observer and Tom Deveson in The Times.

Bibliography

• Politics aka Strategy (2003)
• Miss Herbert aka 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 (2007)
• The Escape (2009)

Articles

See also

• List of British Jewish writers

External links

• 'On Sex, Politics, Style, and Ping-Pong', interview with the Oxonian Review