Sam North

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Sam North
Born (1960-08-30) 30 August 1960 (age 64)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Novelist, screenwriter, lecturer
AwardsSomerset Maugham Prize

Sam North (born 30 August 1960) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter. [1]

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Early life

North was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and worked as a groom, a motorcycle messenger, a runner on film sets, and on building sites. [2]

Career

North's first novel, The Automatic Man, won the Somerset Maugham Prize. His 2004 novel, The Unnumbered, was longlisted for the Booker Prize. [3] North has written two books about writing, Five Analogies for Fiction Writing and The Instinctive Screenplay. He works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter. [4]

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References

  1. "University of Exeter".
  2. "University of Exeter".
  3. "Man Booker Prize". 5 April 2004.
  4. "Professor Sam North".