Английская Википедия:D. J. Taylor (writer)
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David John Taylor Шаблон:Post-nominals (born 1960)[1] is a British critic, novelist and biographer. After attending school in Norwich, he read modern history at St John's College, Oxford, and has received the 2003 Whitbread Biography Award for his biography of George Orwell.[2] His novel Derby Day was longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize.[3] He was previously a member of the Norwich Writers' Circle.
He has contributed to The Daily Telegraph, The Guardian, The Independent, New Statesman, The Spectator, Private Eye and Literary Review, among other publications.
Personal life
Taylor, who was born in Norwich, lives there with his wife, the fiction writer Rachel Hore, and their three children.[2]
Works
- Great Eastern Land: from the notebooks of David Castell (1986), novel
- A Vain Conceit: British Fiction in the 1980s (1989)
- Other People: Portraits From The 90's (1990), with Marcus Berkmann
- Real Life (1992), novel
- After the War: The Novel and England since 1945 (1993)
- English Settlement (1996), novel
- After Bathing at Baxter's (1997), short stories
- Trespass (1998), novel
- Thackeray (1999), biography
- The Comedy Man (2002), novel
- Pretext 6: Punk of Me (2002), guest editor
- Orwell:The Life (2003), biography
- Kept (2006), novel[1]
- On The Corinthian Spirit: The Decline of Amateurism In Sport (2006)
- Bright Young People: The Rise and Fall of a Generation 1918–1940 (2007)
- Ask Alice (2009), novel[1]
- At the Chime of a City Clock (2010), novel[1]
- Derby Day (2011), novel[1]
- Secondhand Daylight (2012), novel
- The Windsor Faction (2013), novel
- Wrote for Luck (2015), stories. Galley Beggar Press
- The New Book of Snobs (2016)
- The Prose Factory: Literary Life in England since 1918 (2016)
- Rock and Roll is Life (2018), novel
- Lost Girls: Love, War and Literature, 1939–1951 (2019), collective biography
- Orwell:The New Life (2023), biography
Prizes and honours
- 1998: Longlisted for Booker Prize for his novel Trespass
- 1999: Winner of a Grinzane Cavour Prize for Шаблон:Lang, the Italian translation of his novel English Settlement
- 2003: Winner of the Whitbread Prize for biography for Orwell: The Life
- 2011: Longlisted for the 2011 Man Booker Prize, for his novel Derby Day.[4]
- 2014: The Windsor Faction winner of the Sidewise Award (tied with Bryce Zabel's Surrounded by Enemies: What If Kennedy Survived Dallas?).[5]
References
External links
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