Trafika Europe 9/10 - UK in Europe

Adam Thorpe

Adam Thorpe (b. Paris, 1956) is the author of ten novels, plus short stories, poetry volumes, plays and radio broadcasts including several BBC documentaries. John Fowles called his first novel, Ulverton (1992), ‘the most interesting novel I have read these last years… Suddenly English lives again!’ Karl Ove Knausgaard wrote: ‘My favourite... English novel is by Adam Thorpe called Ulverton ... a brilliant, very, very good and very unBritish novel... It’s magic, a magic book.’ He has been shortlisted for the Forward Poetry Prize, the BBC National Short Story Award, the South Bank ShowAward for the year’s best novel (Between Each Breath) , as well as the Sir Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. Thorpe lives in France and currently teaches at the Ecole Supérieure des Beaux Arts de Nîmes.