Adam Thirlwell Explained

Adam Thirlwell (born 22 August 1978) is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has twice been named as one of Grantas Best of Young British Novelists. In 2015 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1] He is an advisory editor of The Paris Review.

Life

Thirlwell was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He read English at New College, Oxford, where he got the top first.[2] He was a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford between 2000 and 2007, and worked as assistant editor at the literary magazine Areté. He now lives in London. In 2011 he was the S Fischer Guest Professor of Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin.[3] In 2015 he was announced as an Honorary Fellow of the Metaphysical Club at the Domus Academy in Milan.[4]

Work

Thirlwell is the author of four novels: Politics (2003),[5] The Escape (2009)[6] described by Milan Kundera as "a novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous, and the talent startling",[7] Lurid & Cute (2015).[8] and The Future Future (2023).[9]

He is also the author of a project on the novel and translation, which includes a book first published in 2007,[10] which was chosen as a book of the year by Tom Stoppard in The Guardian and A. S. Byatt in the Times Literary Supplement; and, as guest editor, Multiples, an anthology of multiple translations for McSweeney's Quarterly.[11] In 2019 he created Studio Créole, a group show with novelists and interpreters, co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, which premiered at Manchester International Festival in July.[12]

An experimental book with unfolding pages called Kapow!, designed by Studio Frith, was published by Visual Editions in 2012.[13] It was nominated for the Design Museum's 2013 Designs of the Year awards[14] and has been included in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.[15] A book with the artist Philippe Parreno, Conversation, was published by Serralves Museum in 2017.[16]

Thirlwell wrote a short film, Everyday Performance Artists, for Channel 4's Random Acts, directed by Polly Stenham and starring the voice of Shia LaBeouf, with Gemma Chan, James Norton, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, in 2016.[17] In 2018, he wrote and directed Utopia, starring Lily Cole, Lily McMenamy and Babirye Bukilwa [18]

His writing is published in The New York Times, Le Monde, and La Repubblica, as well as the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and The Believer.[19] He has written columns for The Guardian and Esquire. In May 2015, he was named London editor of the Paris Review.[20]

In June 2018 Thirlwell was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.[21]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

Essays

Articles

As editor

See also

External links

Notes and References

  1. Web site: American Academy of Arts and Letters - Literature Awards Press Release . 24 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150315091602/http://www.artsandletters.org/press_releases/2015literature.php . 15 March 2015 . dead . dmy-all .
  2. Web site: Anonymous . Search results: Adam Thirlwell . Oxford University Gazette . 25 October 2007 .
  3. Web site: Anonymous . Search results: Adam Thirlwell . Free University of Berlin . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20110806102536/http://www.geisteswissenschaften.fu-berlin.de/we03/gastprofessuren/samuel_fischer/kehlmann_thirlwell/index.html . 6 August 2011 .
  4. Web site: Metaphysical Club | Domus Academy . 24 March 2015 . https://web.archive.org/web/20150328013230/http://www.domusacademy.com/en/metaphysical-club/ . 28 March 2015 . dead .
  5. Web site: Politics by Adam Thirlwell | Neel Mukherjee.
  6. News: The Escape by Adam Thirlwell . The Guardian . Sarah . Churchwell . 8 August 2009.
  7. Web site: VINTAGE | World class writing. Beautiful design. Ideas that matter.
  8. News: Become an FT subscriber to read | Financial Times. Financial Times. 16 January 2015.
  9. News: O’Connell . Mark . 2023-08-03 . The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell review – the historical novel, subverted . en-GB . The Guardian . 2023-10-18 . 0261-3077.
  10. News: A Portrait of the Critic as a Delirious Young Man . The New York Times . Richard . Eder . 18 June 2008.
  11. Web site: McSweeney's Issue 42.
  12. Web site: How do We Achieve a Global Conversation Without Entering a Pre-Babel World? | Frieze. 22 July 2019.
  13. Web site: Visual Editions : Kapow!. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20120409133108/http://www.visual-editions.com/our-books/kapow . 9 April 2012 .
  14. Web site: Beazley Designs of the Year Overview.
  15. Web site: Visual Editions : Museum Moment. dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20130306002955/http://www.visual-editions.com/articles/museum-moment . 6 March 2013 .
  16. Web site: Philippe Parreno: A Time Coloured Space.
  17. Web site: Talent line-up announced for new series of Random Acts | Channel 4.
  18. Web site: Tank Magazine.
  19. Web site: Adam Thirlwell : Small Productions . 2012-05-10 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20121119112530/http://www.adamthirlwell.com/en/small-productions . 19 November 2012 . dmy-all .
  20. Stein, Lorin, "New on the Masthead: Susannah Hunnewell and Adam Thirlwell", Paris Review, 20 May 2015.
  21. Web site: Royal Society of Literature admits 40 new fellows to address historical biases. Flood. Alison. 28 June 2018. The Guardian. en. 2018-07-03.
  22. http://www.societyofauthors.org/betty-trask-past-winners,
  23. Web site: Encore . 15 April 2012 . https://web.archive.org/web/20111224091006/http://www.encoreaward.com/Author.aspx?item=71 . 24 December 2011 . dead . dmy-all .
  24. Web site: 2024-06-11 . Orwell Prizes 2024 shortlists announced . 2024-06-24 . Books+Publishing.
  25. Web site: Penguin – The Future Future . 3 August 2023 .

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