Matt Thorne
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- This article is about English novelist Matt Thorne, who is not to be confused with cultural anthropologist Matt Thorn, or Matt Thorne or Matt Thorr musician
Matt Thorne is an English writer born in 1974 who has published seven novels. Thorne grew up in Bristol, England, and was educated at Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge University. Thorne's first book, Tourist, was published in 1998. The book is an attack on the negative effects of tourism on Weston-super-Mare, a popular English seaside town near Bristol. His second book Eight Minutes Idle, which drew on Thorne's experiences of having worked in a call centre, was published in 1999 and won an Encore Award. Thorne's 2004 novel, Cherry, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.
Thorne is a regular book reviewer for national newspapers, has written screenplays and plays for radio, and several books for young adults including the 39 Castles series, which chronicles the adventures of a group of high-spirited children in medieval England. In 2000, Thorne and his fellow novelist Nicholas Blincoe co-founded something of a literary movement, the New Puritans, whose Dogme-style manifesto pledged to bring simplicity and relevance back to contemporary British fiction.
