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Philip Hensher


UK flag (b.1965)

Philip Hensher was born in south London, where he still lives. He was educated at Oxford and Cambridge, wehre his doctorate was an eighteenth-century English painting, and worked for six years as a clerk in the House of Commons.
 


Genres: Literary Fiction, General Fiction
 
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Books containing stories by Philip Hensher
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Why Willows Weep (2011)
Contemporary Tales from the Woods
edited by
Tracy Chevalier and Simon Prosser

Awards
2003 Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Award nominations
2008 Booker Prize (shortlist) : The Northern Clemency
2002 Booker Prize (longlist) : The Mulberry Empire


Philip Hensher recommends
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An Inventory of Heaven (2012)
Jane Feaver
"This is a unique voice."
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Lazarus Is Dead (2011)
(Messiahs Trilogy, book 1)
Richard Beard
"Richard Beard is one of the most ingenious, resourceful and entertaining novelists in England."
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So I Have Thought of You (2004)
Penelope Fitzgerald
"Of all the novelists in English of the last quarter-century, Penelope Fitzgerald has the most unarguable claim on greatness."

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