Chris Cleave | |
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| Born | 14 May 1973 London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Subject | Literary fiction |
| Notable works | Incendiary The Other Hand |
Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist.
Chris Cleave | |
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| Born | 14 May 1973 London, England |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Language | English |
| Alma mater | Balliol College, Oxford |
| Subject | Literary fiction |
| Notable works | Incendiary The Other Hand |
Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist.
Cleave was born in London on 14 May [1] 1973, brought up in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire, and educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied experimental psychology. [2] He lives in the UK with his French wife and three children.
Cleave's debut novel Incendiary was published in twenty countries and has been adapted into a feature film starring Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor. The novel won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The audiobook version was read by Australian actor Susan Lyons.
His second novel, The Other Hand , was released in August 2008 and was described as "A powerful piece of art... shocking, exciting and deeply affecting... superb" [3] by The Independent . It has been shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Awards in the Novel category. [4] Cleave was inspired to write The Other Hand from his childhood in West Africa. It was released in the US and Canada in January 2009 under the title Little Bee. [5]
Gold, his third novel, was called "bold and brave" by The Observer . [6]
Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian in London. From 2008 until 2010 he wrote a column for The Guardian entitled "Down with the kids". [7]
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