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BiographyJames Lasdun was born in London and now lives in the US. He is a poet, fiction and screen writer, and has taught poetry and fiction writing at Princeton, New York and Columbia Universities.
His first book of short stories, The Silver Age (1985), won a Dylan Thomas Award, and was followed by two further collections: ‘Three Evenings' (1992); and the selection, The Siege (1999), the title story of which was made into a film by Bernardo Bertolucci ('Beseiged').
His poetry collections are A Jump Start (1987); The Revenant (1995); and Landscape with Chainsaw (2001), about the author’s boyhood experiences in England and in his adopted America. This book was shortlisted for the T. S. Eliot Prize, the Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize, and named as one of the Times Literary Supplement’s International Books of the Year.
His first novel was The Horned Man (2002), a New York Times Notable Book of the Year and an Economist Best Book of the Year, and was followed by a second novel, Seven Lies (2006), a political thriller. This book was shortlisted for the 2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction). His latest novel is It's Beginning to Hurt (2009).
James Lasdun also co-edited After Ovid: new Metamorphoses (1994), poets’ reinterpretations of Roman myths, and wrote the non-fiction book, Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria (1997), with his wife, Pia Davis. His co-screenwriting credits include the award-winning Sunday and Signs and Wonders. His work has been widely translated.
He was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowhip in Poetry in 1997, won the TLS/Blackwells poetry competition in 1999 and in 2006 won the first National Short Story Competition with his story, ‘An Anxious Man’.
Genres (in alphabetical order)Fiction, Poetry, Screenplay
BibliographyThe Silver Age Cape, 1985 A Jump Start Secker & Warburg, 1987 'Three Evenings' Secker & Warburg, 1992 After Ovid: new Metamorphoses (co-editor) Faber and Faber, 1994 The Revenant Cape, 1995 Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria (with Pia Davis) Penguin, 1997 The Siege Vintage, 1999 Landscape with Chainsaw Cape, 2001 The Horned Man Cape, 2002 Seven Lies Cape, 2006 It's Beginning to Hurt Cape, 2009
Prizes and awards1982 Eric Gregory Award 1985 Dylan Thomas Award The Silver Age 1997 Guggenheim Fellowship in Poetry 1997 Sundance Film Festival Screenwriter Award Sunday 1999 TLS/Blackwells Poetry Competition (first prize) 2001 Forward Poetry Prize (Best Poetry Collection of the Year) (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw 2001 Los Angeles Times Book Prize (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw 2001 T. S. Eliot Prize (shortlist) Landscape with Chainsaw 2002 Economist Best Book of the Year The Horned Man 2002 New York Times Notable Book of the Year The Horned Man 2006 National Short Story Competition ('An Anxious Man') 2007 Encore Award (shortlist) Seven Lies 2007 James Tait Black Memorial Prize (for fiction) (shortlist) Seven Lies
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