Adam Thirlwell (born 1978) is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages.

  Life

Thirlwell was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He read English at New College, Oxford, where he got the top first.^[1] He was a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford between 2000 and 2007, and worked as assistant editor at the literary magazine Areté. He now lives in London. In 2011 he was the S Fischer Guest Professor of Comparative Literature at the Freie University in Berlin.^[2]

  Work

Thirlwell is the author of two novels, Politics (2003) ^[3] and The Escape (2009)^[4] described by Milan Kundera as "a novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous, and the talent startling.".^[5]

He is also the author of a project on the novel and translation, first published in 2007,^[6] which was chosen as a book of the year by Tom Stoppard in The Guardian and A. S. Byatt in the Times Literary Supplement.

An experimental book with unfolding pages called Kapow! is to be published by Visual Editions.^[7]

His writing is published in the New York Times, Le Monde, and La Repubblica, as well as the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and The Believer.^[8] He has written columns for The Guardian and Esquire.

  Awards

• 2003: Granta "Best of Young British Novelists"
• 2003: Betty Trask Award, winner, "Politics" ^[9]
• 2005: Lire "50 écrivains pour demain"
• 2008: Somerset Maugham Award, winner, "Miss Herbert"
• 2009: Encore Award, shortlist, "The Escape" ^[10]

  Bibliography

• Politics (2003)
• Miss Herbert (US: The Delighted States) (2007)
• The Escape (2009)
• Kapow! (2012)

  Articles

• Thirlwell, Adam (October 2008). "Amerikas". The Believer 6 (8): 3–17. 

  See also

Novels portal

• List of British Jewish writers

  External links

• 'On Sex, Politics, Style, and Ping-Pong', interview with the Oxonian Review
• 'Lists, lists, lists...', article for Granta on literary 'Best of' lists.

  References