David Szalay

David Szalay (born 1974 in Montreal, Quebec) is an English writer. His surname is pronounced SOL-loy.[1]

He was born in Canada, moved to the UK the following year and has lived there ever since. He studied at Oxford University and has written a number of radio dramas for the BBC.[2] He won the Betty Trask Award for his first novel, London and the South-East, along with the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize. Since then he has written two other novels: Innocent (2009) and Spring (2011). He has also recently been named one of The Telegraph's Top 20 British Writers Under 40[3] and has also made it onto Granta magazine's 2013 list of the Best of Young British Novelists.[4] A linked collection of short stories, All That Man Is, was short listed for the Man Booker Prize in 2016[5] and won the 2016 Gordon Burn Prize.[6] The Spectator said "Nobody captures the super-sadness of modern Europe as well as Szalay."[7] The Observer asked if it was really a novel: "does it in any sense work, as Jonathan Cape wants us to believe, as a novel? Yes, there’s a thematic consistency that makes this more than a collection, and Szalay even throws in the odd narrative link (the 73-year-old, it transpires, is the 17-year-old’s granddad). But still, a novel? I don’t think so."[8] It was shortlisted for the Man Booker prize.[9]

References

  1. ↑ Stein, Lorin (Summer 2016). "Writing All That Man Is: An Exchange". The Paris Review. Retrieved 2017-02-07.
  2. ↑ "David Szalay". Unitedagents.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  3. ↑ Books. "Are these Britain's best 20 novelists under 40". Telegraph.co.uk. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
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  5. ↑ Alison Flood and Mark Brown. "Man Booker shortlist 2016: tiny Scottish imprint sees off publishing giants | Books". The Guardian. Retrieved 2016-10-29.
  6. ↑ Flood, Alison (7 October 2016). "David Szalay's 'unsparing' All That Man Is wins Gordon Burn prize". The Guardian. Retrieved 8 November 2016.
  7. ↑ Cook, Jude (16 April 2016). "All That Man Is: a novel view of masculinity". Spectator. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  8. ↑ Skidelsky, William (3 April 2016). "All That Man Is by David Szalay review – tales of love and money". Observer. Retrieved 11 August 2016.
  9. ↑ Foreman, Amanda (28 July 2016). "The Man Booker chair on the 2016 longlist – ‘fresh, confident, passionate’". Guardian. Retrieved 11 August 2016.


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