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Adam Thirlwell


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Adam Thirlwell was born in 1978. His first novel, Politics, was translated into thirty languages. In 2003, he was chosen as one of Granta's Best British Novelists under forty. He lives in London.


Genres: Literary Fiction
 
Novels
   Politics (2003)
   The Escape (2009)
   Kapow! (2012)
   Lurid & Cute (2013)
   The Future Future (2023)
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Anthologies edited
   Multiples Air Exp (2013)
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Books containing stories by Adam Thirlwell

Awards
2013 Granta Best of Young British Novelists
2003 Granta Best of Young British Novelists

Award nominations
2024 Orwell Prize for Political Fiction (finalist) : The Future Future
2023 Goldsmiths Prize (nominee) : The Future Future
2003 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : Politics


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How to Be Somebody Else (2024)
Miranda Pountney
"Compulsive. It makes its moves with such assurance that it's hard to believe this is Pountney's first novel. A wild mess of sex and feeling is here given beautiful form."
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The Appointment (2020)
Katharina Volckmer
"The Appointment is a wonderful first novel—at once savage and precise, hypercomical and furious. It has all the authority of true chutzpah."
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Sea Monsters (2019)
Chloe Aridjis
"I love the way Chloe Aridjis creates her own worlds in prose, and I especially love how Sea Monsters has invented the world of adolescence and its reveries: violent and tender, logical and dreamlike – a twenty-first century essay disguised as a nineteenth-century fable."

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