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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.
Adam Thorpe