David Szalay

David Szalay (born 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is an English writer.

He was born in Canada, moved to the UK the following year and has lived there ever since. He studied at Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC.[1] He won the Betty Trask Award for his first novel, London and the South-East, along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Since then he has written two other novels: Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011). He has also recently been named one of The Telegraph's Top 20 British Writers Under 40[2] and has also made it onto Granta magazine's 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.[3] A linked collection of short stories, All That Man Is, was short listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2016[4] and won the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize.[5] The Spectator said "Nobody captures the super-sadness of modern Europe as well as Szalay."[6] The Observer asked if it was really a novel: "does it in any sense work, as Jonathan Cape wants us to believe, as a novel? Yes, there’s a thematic consistency that makes this more than a collection, and Szalay even throws in the odd narrative link (the 73-year-old, it transpires, is the 17-year-old’s granddad). But still, a novel? I don’t think so."[7] It was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.[8]

References

  1. ↑ "David Szalay". Unitedagents.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  2. ↑ Books. "Are these Britain's best 20 novelists under 40". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
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  4. ↑ Alison Flood and Mark Brown. "Man Booker shortlist 2016: tiny Scottish imprint sees off publishing giants | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  5. ↑ Flood, Alison (7 October 2016). "David Szalay's 'unsparing' All That Man Is wins Gordon Burn prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  6. ↑ Cook, Jude (16 April 2016). "All That Man Is: a novel view of masculinity". Spectator. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  7. ↑ Skidelsky, William (3 April 2016). "All That Man Is by David Szalay review – tales of love and money". Observer. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  8. ↑ Foreman, Amanda (28 July 2016). "The Man Booker chair on the 2016 longlist – 'fresh, confident, passionate'". Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2016.

Alison Flood; Mark Brown (13 September 2016). "Man Booker shortlist 2016: tiny Scottish imprint sees off publishing giants". theguardian.com. Retrieved 2016-10-29. 

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