D.M. Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. After reading English at New College, Oxford, he became a teacher and was Head of the English Department at Hereford College of Education until he became a full-time writer. His first novel The Flute-Player won the Gollancz Pan/Picador Fantasy Competition. He is also known for his collections of verse and his translation from the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.
He was awarded the Los Angeles Fiction prize for his novel The White Hotel, an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages; a Cholmondeley award for poetry; and the Orwell Prize for his biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He lives in his native Cornwall, England.
He was awarded the Los Angeles Fiction prize for his novel The White Hotel, an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages; a Cholmondeley award for poetry; and the Orwell Prize for his biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He lives in his native Cornwall, England.
Awards: LA Times (1981) see all
Genres: Fantasy
Novels
Two Voices (1968)
The Rock (1975)
The Devil and the Floral Dance (1978) (with John Astrop)
The Flute Player (1979)
Protest (1980)
Birthstone (1980)
The White Hotel (1981)
Lying Together (1990)
Flying in to Love (1992)
Pictures at an Exhibition (1993)
Eating Pavlova (1994)
Lady With a Laptop (1996)
Hunters in the Snow (2014)
Conversations with Freud (2020)
The Rock (1975)
The Devil and the Floral Dance (1978) (with John Astrop)
The Flute Player (1979)
Protest (1980)
Birthstone (1980)
The White Hotel (1981)
Lying Together (1990)
Flying in to Love (1992)
Pictures at an Exhibition (1993)
Eating Pavlova (1994)
Lady With a Laptop (1996)
Hunters in the Snow (2014)
Conversations with Freud (2020)
Collections
Logan Stone (1971)
Orpheus in Hell (1977)
Selected Poems (poems) (1983)
Not Saying Everything (poems) (2006)
Flight and Smoke (poems) (2010)
Two Countries (poems) (2011)
Mrs English and Other Women (poems) (2014)
Shadow Sonnets (poems) (2018)
Ruslan and Ludmila (poems) (2019)
Orpheus in Hell (1977)
Selected Poems (poems) (1983)
Not Saying Everything (poems) (2006)
Flight and Smoke (poems) (2010)
Two Countries (poems) (2011)
Mrs English and Other Women (poems) (2014)
Shadow Sonnets (poems) (2018)
Ruslan and Ludmila (poems) (2019)
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