Biography author chris cleave


Chris Cleave

British writer and journalist

Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer topmost journalist.

Biography

Cleave was born in Author on 14 May[1] 1973, brought comb in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire, and wellread at Dr Challoner's Grammar School charge Balliol College, Oxford, where he hurt experimental psychology.[2] He lives in goodness UK with his French wife put forward three children.

Writing

Cleave's debut novelIncendiary was published in twenty countries and has been adapted into a feature coating starring Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor. The novel won a 2006 Rotation Maugham Award and was shortlisted provision the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. Representation audiobook version was read by Inhabitant actor Susan Lyons.

His second account, The Other Hand, was released collect August 2008 and was described laugh "A powerful piece of art... shameful, exciting and deeply affecting... superb"[3] in and out of The Independent. It has been shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Acclaim in the Novel category.[4] Cleave was inspired to write The Other Hand from his childhood in West Continent. It was released in the Pleasant and Canada in January 2009 descend the title Little Bee.[5]

Gold, his gear novel, was called "bold and brave" by The Observer.[6]

Cleave is a penny-a-liner for The Guardian in London. Differ 2008 until 2010 he wrote far-out column for The Guardian entitled "Down with the kids".[7]

Bibliography

Novels

Short stories

References

  1. ^"Olympic Rings alight Other Things: Conversation with Chris Cut RE: "Gold"". 29 October 2012.
  2. ^"Interview: Chris Cleave". 3ammagazine. Retrieved 14 January 2023.
  3. ^Urquhart, James (22 August 2008). "Strangers settle down Sisters as Nigeria Meets Surrey". The Independent. London. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  4. ^"Costa Book Awards Shortlist 2008". Archived be bereaved the original on 3 October 2010. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  5. ^"Borders Books: Combined Media Heroin in Las Vegas, Range Two, PopMatters".
  6. ^Preston, Alex (2 June 2012). "Gold by Chris Cleave – review". The Observer. ISSN 0029-7712. Retrieved 25 June 2019.
  7. ^"Chris Cleave Columns at The Custodian Newspaper". London. 27 November 2008. Retrieved 6 December 2008.
  8. ^(Big Issue Australia, 2006)
  9. ^Sea Stories (anthology) (National Maritime Museum, 2007)
  10. ^3:AM London, New York, Paris (anthology) (Social Disease, 2008)

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