Andrew Crumey
Andrew Crumey (born 1961) is a novelist and former literary editor of the Edinburgh newspaper Scotland on Sunday.
Life and career
Crumey was born in Kirkintilloch, north of Glasgow, Scotland. He graduated with First Class Honours from the University of St Andrews and holds a PhD in theoretical physics from Imperial College, London.
In 2000 Crumey's fourth novel 'Mr Mee' was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize. In 2006, Crumey became the fifth recipient of the Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award. He now lectures part-time on creative writing at Northumbria University.
Works
- Music in a Foreign Language (1994)
- Pfitz (1995)
- D’Alembert’s Principle (1996)
- Mr Mee (2000)
- Mobius Dick (2004)
- Sputnik Caledonia (2008)
- The Secret Knowledge (2013)
See also
- List of fictional books#Works invented by Andrew Crumey
- List of comic and cartoon characters named after people
- List of fiction employing parallel universes
References
- "The Northern Rock Foundation Writer's Award 2006". The Northern Rock Foundation. 2006-03-30. Retrieved 2007-03-24.
External links
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