Rupert Thomson

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Rupert Thomson (born in Eastbourne, East Sussex on November 5th 1955) is an English author.

Biography

Following the sudden death of his mother, Rupert Thomson was educated as a boarder at Christ's Hospital School. At seventeen, he was awarded a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied Medieval History and Political Thought. He worked for four years as a copywriter in London, before abandoning his job to write full-time. Once described as "one of the strangest and most refreshingly un-English voices in contemporary fiction", and compared to writers as various as Franz Kafka, J. G. Ballard, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Charles Dickens, Elmore Leonard, and Mervyn Peake, he is the author of nine critically acclaimed novels. His fourth novel, The Insult, was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize. More recently, Death of a Murderer was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year. His sixth novel, The Book of Revelation, was made into a feature film by the Australian writer/director, Ana Kokkinos. With his 2010 memoir, "This Party's Got to Stop", he ventured into non-fiction for the first time, and explored events surrounding his father's death, and his complex relationship with his brothers and extended family. This Party's Got to Stop won the Writers' Guild Non Fiction Book of the Year. His new novel, Secrecy, which was published in March 2013, is based on the life and work of the eccentric Sicilian wax artist, Gaetano Giulio Zumbo. Thomson has lived in many cities throughout the world, including New York, Sydney and Barcelona. He currently lives in South London.

Novels

Memoir

  • This Party's Got to Stop, 2010

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