Zane Radcliffe

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Zane Radcliffe
Born1969 (age 55–56)
Bangor, County Down, Northern Ireland
OccupationNovelist
NationalityBritish
Alma mater Queen's University Belfast

Zane Radcliffe (born 1969 in Bangor, Northern Ireland) is an author from Northern Ireland.

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Early life

Radcliffe graduated from Queen's University Belfast, where he was the editor of their student newspaper.[ citation needed ] After graduation, he briefly worked as a journalist for M8. In 1994 he moved to London to study advertising for a year, after which he took a job as an advertising copyrighter. He spent the following six years writing commercials. [1]

Writing career

In 1974, he wrote his first short story, My Dog. [2] In 2001, he wrote his first book, London Irish, which in 2003 won the W H Smith People’s Choice Award for New Talent. [3] Six months later, he wrote his second novel, Big Jessie, and in 2005 wrote The Killer’s Guide to Iceland which is also published in Black Swan. [1] Currently, he is a Creative Director at Newhaven, at an advertising agency. [2]

List of Works

References

  1. 1 2 3 The Killer's Guide to Iceland, The Author: Biography Archived 24 September 2009 at the Wayback Machine
  2. 1 2 "Zane Radcliffe". www.fantasticfiction.com. Retrieved 6 May 2021.
  3. ↑ BBC News: 18 March 2003. Double book win for Attenborough.
  4. ↑ Radcliffe, Zane (31 October 2012). London Irish. Transworld. ISBN   978-1-4481-6745-6.
  5. ↑ Radcliffe, Zane (31 October 2012). Big Jessie. Transworld. ISBN   978-1-4481-6744-9.


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