James Lasdun Explained

James Lasdun (born 8 June 1958) is an English novelist and poet.

Life and career

Lasdun was born in London,^[1] the son of Susan (Bendit) and British architect Sir Denys Lasdun.^{[2] [3]} Lasdun has written four novels, including, a New York Times Notable Book, and, which was an Economist Book of the Year and was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize for fiction. He has published four collections of short stories, including, the title story of which was adapted for film by Bernardo Bertolucci as in 1998. His latest collection was chosen as a Best Book of the Year by, the, the and the . Lasdun has written four books of poetry, one of which, Landscape with Chainsaw,^[4] was a finalist for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was also selected as a TLS International Book of the Year.

In 2013 he published a memoir: Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked. His alleged stalker wrote a memoir in response called Writing and Madness in a Time of Terror.^[5]

With Jonathan Nossiter, Lasdun co-wrote the film Sunday in 1997, based on his story, winning both the Best Feature Award and the Waldo Salt Best Screenplay Award at Sundance. Together they also wrote the next Nossiter film Signs and Wonders in 2000, starring Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgard, selected for the official selection of the 50th Berlin International Film Festival^[6] in 2000.

His reviews and essays have appeared in,, the, and The New Yorker.

With his wife, Pia Davis, Lasdun has written two guidebooks dedicated to the combined pleasures of walking and eating: one in Tuscany and Umbria, the other in Provence.

He has taught creative writing at Princeton, New York University, the New York State Writers' Institute, the New School, Columbia University and Bennington College.

Critical appraisals of his work include reviews by James Wood in The Guardian,^[7] Gabriele Annan in The New York Review of Books^[8] and Johanna Thomas-Corr in The Observer.^[9]

Bibliography

Novels

• Book: Lasdun, James . The horned man . London . Jonathan Cape . 2002 .
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Seven Lies . 2005. W. W. Norton . 978-0-393-32908-7. Paperback.
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . The Fall Guy . 2016 . W. W. Norton . 978-0-393-29232-9. Hardcover.
• Book: Victory: Two Novellas. Lasdun, James. 1. 2019. London. Jonathan Cape. Contains Feathered Glory and Afternoon of a Faun.

Short fiction

Collections

• Book: Lasdun, James . Delirium Eclipse . 1986. a.k.a. .
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Three Evenings . registration . 1992. Farrar Straus Giroux . 9780374208875 .
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . The Siege . Selected Stories . 2000. (a.k.a. .
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . It's Beginning To Hurt . 2010 . Picador. 978-0-312-42986-7. Paperback.

Poetry

Collections

• Book: Lasdun, James . A Jump Start . registration . 1988.
• Book: Lasdun . James . 1 . After Ovid: New Metamorphoses . Michael . Hofmann . Michael Hofmann . 1995. After Ovid: New Metamorphoses .
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Woman Police Officer in Elevator . 1997.
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Landscape with Chainsaw . July 2001 . hardcover . WW Norton & Co . 1st . United States . 978-0-393-01963-6 .
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Water Sessions . 2012. Jonathan Cape . 978-0-224-09709-3. Paperback.
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Bluestone: New and Selected Poems . 2015 . . 9780374220556 . registration .

Nonfiction

• Book: Lasdun, James . Give Me Everything You Have: On Being Stalked . 2013 . Farrar, Straus & Giroux . 978-0-374-21907-9 .
• Lasdun, James . 1 . 2017 . Appointment with death: my dentist's baroque fantasy life landed him in serious trouble . Annals of Crime . The New Yorker . 93 . 19 . 30–37 . ^[10]

Miscellaneous

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• Book: Lasdun . James . 1 . Introduction . Collected Stories . Anton . Chekhov . Anton Chekhov . Folio.
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Introduction . St Mawr by DH Lawrence . Penguin.
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Introduction . As A Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo . NYRB.
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Introduction . Amerika by Franz Kafka . Folio.
• Book: Lasdun, James . 1 . Introduction . Selected Stories of Paul Bowles . Penguin.
• Book: Lasdun . James . 1 . Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria . Pia . Davis . 28 September 2004 . revised . Penguin. 978-0-14-100900-1 . paperback.
• Book: Lasdun . James . 1 . Walking and Eating in Provence . Pia . Davis . 6 May 2008 . Moon Handbooks . Avalon. 978-1-59880-063-0. Paperback.
• News: Lasdun, James. 1. The Chronicle review – 'I Will Ruin Him': How it feels to be stalked. 21 January 2013 . The Chronicle of Higher Education. .

Honors

• Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize (short stories)
• Recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry
• Winner (with Jonathan Nossiter) of the Sundance Waldo Salt Best Screenplay Award for the film Sunday
• Winner (1999) of the London Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition^[11]
• Winner of the inaugural BBC National Short Story Award (May 2006)^[12] for his story An Anxious Man
• Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Notes and References

1. Web site: Search Results for England & Wales Births 1837-2006. 24 August 2017. 24 August 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20170824180530/http://search.findmypast.co.uk/results/world-records/england-and-wales-births-1837-2006?firstname=james&lastname=lasdun&eventyear=1958&eventyear_offset=2. live.
2. News: Sir Denys Lasdun . London . The Guardian . Diana . Rowntree . 12 January 2001 . 17 February 2014 . 29 July 2019 . https://web.archive.org/web/20190729170514/https://www.theguardian.com/news/2001/jan/12/guardianobituaries . live .
3. https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/07/give-me-everything-you-have-review
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5. Web site: Writing and Madness in a Time of Terror . Goodreads . 28 April 2024 . en.
6. Web site: Berlinale: 2000 Programm . 8 July 2015 . berlinale.de . 11 November 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131111192719/http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/2000/02_programm_2000/02_Programm_2000.html . live .
7. News: Book review . The Guardian . . 29 May 1999 . 11 December 2016 . 14 March 2016 . https://web.archive.org/web/20160314062555/http://www.theguardian.com/books/1999/may/29/books.guardianreview18 . live . .
8. Who Killed Bogomil Trumilcik? . 9 May 2002 . New York Review of Books . 17 February 2014 . Annan . Gabriele . 49 . 8 . 28 February 2014 . https://web.archive.org/web/20140228055812/http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2002/may/09/who-killed-bogomil-trumilcik/ . live . .
9. News: Victory by James Lasdun review – suspenseful, truthful, audacious. The Observer. London. 3 March 2019. 7 September 2020. 6 March 2019. https://web.archive.org/web/20190306135158/https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/mar/03/victory-james-lasdun-review. live.
10. Online version is titled "My dentist's murder trial".
11. Web site: Writers Institute website . 8 May 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060422023930/http://www.albany.edu/writers-inst/lasdun_james.html . 22 April 2006 . dead .
12. Web site: The Short Story (UK) website . 23 August 2006 . 21 August 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20060821063723/http://www.theshortstory.org.uk/prizes/nssp/index.html . live .