Francis Spufford

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Francis Spufford FRSL (born 1964) is an English author.

Early life

He studied English Literature at Trinity Hall, Cambridge, gaining a BA in 1985.

Career

He was Chief Publisher's Reader from 1987-90 for Chatto & Windus.

Spufford was a Royal Literary Fund fellow at Anglia Ruskin University from 2005 to 2007, and since 2008 has taught at Goldsmiths College in London on the MA in Creative and Life Writing there.[1]

Publications

Spufford specializes in works of non-fiction.

  • I May Be Some Time: Ice and the English Imagination, 1996 - won literary prizes including the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, Writers Guild Award for Best Non-Fiction Book of the Year, and the Somerset Maugham Award in 1997.[2]
  • The Child That Books Built, 2002
  • Backroom Boys: The Secret Return of the British Boffin, 2003 - nominated for the Aventis Prize
  • Red Plenty, 2010 - longlisted for the Orwell Prize, and translated into Dutch, Spanish, Estonian, Polish, German and Russian, with versions in Italian and Turkish following. This is a fusion of history and fiction which dramatises the period in the history of the USSR (c.1960) when it seemed possible that communism could create greater abundance than capitalism. It is influenced by science fiction, and uses many of its tools, but is not itself SF.
  • Unapologetic, 2012

He has also edited two volumes of polar literature.

Personal life

He is the son of the social historian Margaret Spufford and the economic historian Peter Spufford. He lives just outside Cambridge. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He is a practising Christian.

References

  1. ↑ "Department of English & Comparative Literature: Francis Spufford". Goldsmiths College. Retrieved 2010-12-04. 
  2. ↑ "The Somerset Maugham Awards: Past Winners". The Society of Authors. Retrieved 2010-12-04. 

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