| 词条 | Sid Smith (writer) |
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Sid Smith (born c. 1949) is an award-winning English novelist poet and journalist. Life and careerSmith was born in Preston, Lancashire. For seven years he worked in labouring jobs, including dustman, gardner, gravedigger and construction worker.[1] Since then he has hitch-hiked 9,000 miles around the US, lived in Italy and Greece, acquired a pilot's licence for paragliders. Smith came late to literary prominence. He had been a journalist for 17 years,[1] including two years as a sub-editor on The Times, and was already in his 50s when his debut novel Something Like A House was published in 2001. The tale of a British deserter in China at the time of the Cultural Revolution, Something Like a House won critical praise and went on to win both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award. What was remarkable about the book was its meticulous evocation of time and place, especially since Smith had never been to China and had written the book entirely from his own research, conducted among other places in the British Library. Smith says that his only previous contact with China had been a "one-hour stopover at Hong Kong airport".[2] He claims that "the only ticket you need is a library ticket".[3] However, his novels portray the gritty details of manual labour, about which he may claim to be knowledgeable. Smith's second novel, A House by the River (2003), was another adventure story set in China. His third, China Dreams (2007), has the theme of a Londoner who is obsessed with China but has never been there. Smith is a sub-editor on The Times. Private lifeSmith was married with full Shinto rites to Chieko Nomura at a shrine in Southern Japan.[4] He lives in Islington in north London.[5] Notable works
Other writingsSmith is also a poet (unpublished) and short story writer (unpublished) on a variety of topics.[6] AwardsWhitbread First Novel Award 2001 - Something Like a House [2]James Tait Black Memorial Prize 2001 - Something Like a House [7]Encore Award Nominee 2004 - A House by the RiverReferences1. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://www.picador.com/authors/sid-smith|title=Sid Smith|last=|first=|date=|website=Picador|publisher=|access-date=30 December 2016}} 2. ^1 {{Cite web|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/arts/1740811.stm|title=Surprise winner for Whitbread novel 4 January 2002|last=|first=|date=|website=BBC|publisher=|access-date=30 December 2016}} 3. ^The British Library {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070610055629/http://www.bl.uk/about/annual/arcasestudies.html |date=10 June 2007 }} 4. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/travel/destinations/japan/article2484633.ece|title=My Japanese wedding in Kobe 22 April 2010|last=|first=|date=|website=The Times Japan|publisher=|access-date=28 December 2016}} 5. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.elitepropertysearch.com/locations/property-search-islington/|title=Property search Islingtron|last=|first=|date=|website=Elite Properties|publisher=|access-date=28 December 2016}} 6. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.sidsmith.co.uk/|title=The website of Sid Smith|last=|first=|date=|website=Sid Smith|publisher=|access-date=28 December 2016}} 7. ^{{Cite web|url=http://www.ed.ac.uk/events/james-tait-black/winners/fiction|title=Winners of the James Tait Black Prize for Fiction|last=|first=|date=|website=University of Edimburgh|publisher=|access-date=28 December 2016}} External links
8 : 1949 births|Living people|British male journalists|21st-century English novelists|James Tait Black Memorial Prize recipients|People from Preston, Lancashire|English male novelists|21st-century British male writers |
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