| 词条 | Adam Thorpe |
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| name = Adam Thorpe | caption = | pseudonym = | birth_name = | birth_date = {{birth date and age|1956|12|5|df=yes}} | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = | death_place = | occupation = novelist, poet, playwright, translator, reviewer | nationality = British | period = 1988–present | genre = | subject = | movement = | notableworks = | influences = | influenced = | website = }} Adam Thorpe (born 5 December 1956, Paris, France) is a British poet and novelist whose works also include short stories, translations, radio dramas and documentaries. He is a frequent contributor of reviews and articles to various newspapers, journals and magazines, including the Guardian, the Poetry Review and the Times Literary Supplement. CareerAdam Thorpe was born in Paris and grew up in India, Cameroon and England. Graduating from Oxford's Magdalen College in 1979, he founded a touring theatre company, then settled in London to teach drama and English literature. He spoused Joanna Wistreich, an English teacher, in 1985; they had three children,[1] and they now live in France. His writing has garnered recognition throughout his career, and has been translated into many languages. His first collection of poetry, Mornings in the Baltic (1988), was shortlisted that year for the Whitbread Poetry Award. His first novel, Ulverton (1992), an episodic work covering 350 years of English rural history, won critical acclaim worldwide, including that of the novelist John Fowles, who reviewed it in The Guardian as:
The novel was awarded the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize for 1992. Karl Ove Knausgård, author of the internationally acclaimed bestseller My Struggle, stated during a reading in Washington DC that, "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."[3]Hilary Mantel has recently written: "There is no contemporary I admire more than Adam Thorpe, whose novel Ulverton is a late twentieth century masterpiece."[4]In 2007 Thorpe was shortlisted for prizes in three respective genres: the Forward Poetry Prize, the BBC National Short Story Award and the South Bank Show Award for the year's best novel (Between Each Breath). His novel Hodd (2009), a darker version of the Robin Hood legend in the form of a medieval document, was shortlisted for the inaugural Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction in 2010. His sixth poetry collection, Voluntary (2012), was a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. His 2012 novel, the literary thriller Flight, was described by D. J. Taylor in the Guardian as confirming "a long-held impression that Thorpe is one of the most underrated writers on the planet."[5] Thorpe started his career as an actor, and is the author of many BBC radio dramas starring, among others, Tara Fitzgerald, Sian Phillips and Patrick Malahide; his one-stage play, Couch Grass and Ribbon, written almost entirely in Berkshire dialect, was performed at the Watermill Theatre, Berkshire, in 1996. Using period language, he has translated two great nineteenth-century French novels for Vintage Classics: Flaubert's Madame Bovary and Zola's Thérèse Raquin.[6] His first work of non-fiction, On Silbury Hill, described by Paul Farley in the Guardian as "a rich and evocative book of place",[7] was Book of the Week on Radio 4 in August 2014. WorksPoetry
Novels
Short story collections
Non-fiction
Translation
Radio Dramas
Prizes and awards
Notes and references1. ^Meritt Moseley, British novelists since 1960, Detroit, Gale Group, 2001, p. 268. 2. ^John Fowles, "Thank the Gods for Bloody Mindedness" (review of Ulverton), the Guardian, May 28, 1992, p. 25. 3. ^{{cite web |url= https://www.loc.gov/today/cyberlc/feature_wdesc.php?rec=5528 |title= Karl Ove Knausgaard Reads from "My Struggle: Book One" Webcast |author= |origyear= event 2 May 2012 |work= Library of Congress |date= August 7, 2014 |accessdate= 21 April 2017}} 4. ^{{cite web |url= http://www.vogue.com/946802/novelists-summer-reading-lists |title= 5 of Vogue's Favorite Novelists Tell Us What They're Reading This Summer |author= Guiducci, Mark |date= |work= vogue.com |accessdate= 21 April 2017}} 5. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2012/may/04/flight-adam-thorpe-fiction-review|title=Flight by Adam Thorpe – review|first=D. J.|last=Taylor|date=4 May 2012|publisher=|accessdate=21 April 2017|via=The Guardian}} 6. ^ "an unusual freshness" 7. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2014/jul/17/on-silbury-hill-adam-thorpe-review|title=On Silbury Hill review – 'a rich and evocative book of place'|first=Paul|last=Farley|date=17 July 2014|publisher=|accessdate=21 April 2017|via=The Guardian}} 8. ^[https://archive.is/20150425234607/http://www.towerpoetry.org.uk/poetry/poetry-archive/201-dark-wings-alison-brackenbury] Review by Alison Brackenbury: "Adam Thorpe’s poems are grounded in a quiet of profound strength. They can also take flight. This is an admirable combination." 9. ^ 10. ^{{cite web|url=http://observer.com/2006/03/art-class-in-the-rubble-a-war-novel-eyes-beauty-2/|title=Art Class in the Rubble- A War Novel Eyes Beauty|author=|date=20 March 2006|work=observer.com|accessdate=21 April 2017}} 11. ^{{cite web|url=https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/is-this-the-way-you-said-by-adam-thorpe-407961.html|title=Latitude 2014: Redefining the music festival|author=|date=11 July 2014|work=independent.co.uk|accessdate=21 April 2017}} 12. ^ "an unusual freshness". 13. ^[https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/radio--acts-of-decline-and-fall-1453357.html] "a gripping psychodrama" 14. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/media/2004/oct/25/tvandradio.radio]"Every scene felt quietly real, for all the rush of social change and infinite cruelty just beyond it." 15. ^[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2010/apr/01/booker-rivals-walter-scott-prize-shortlist "Booker rivals clash again on Walter Scott prize shortlist"], the Guardian, 2 Apr 2010 External links{{wikiquote}}
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