Adam Thirlwell

Thirlwell in 2023

Adam Thirlwell FRSL (born 22 August 1978) is a British novelist. His work has been translated into thirty languages. He has twice been named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. In 2015 he received the E.M. Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters.[1] He is an advisory editor of The Paris Review.[2]

Life

Thirlwell was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He read English at New College, Oxford, where he got the top first.[3] He was a Prize Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford between 2000 and 2007, and worked as assistant editor at the literary magazine Areté. He now lives in London. In 2011 he was the S Fischer Guest Professor of Comparative Literature at the Freie Universität Berlin.[4] In 2015 he was announced as an Honorary Fellow of the Metaphysical Club at the Domus Academy in Milan.[5]

Work

Thirlwell is the author of four novels: Politics (2003),[6] The Escape (2009)[7] described by Milan Kundera as "a novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous, and the talent startling",[8] Lurid & Cute (2015).[9] and The Future Future (2023).[10]

He is also the author of a project on the novel and translation, which includes a book first published in 2007,[11] which was chosen as a book of the year by Tom Stoppard in The Guardian and A. S. Byatt in the Times Literary Supplement; and, as guest editor, Multiples, an anthology of multiple translations for McSweeney's Quarterly.[12] In 2019 he created Studio Créole, a group show with novelists and interpreters, co-curated with Hans Ulrich Obrist, which premiered at Manchester International Festival in July.[13]

An experimental book with unfolding pages called Kapow!, designed by Studio Frith, was published by Visual Editions in 2012.[14] It was nominated for the Design Museum's 2013 Designs of the Year awards[15] and has been included in the permanent collection of the Art Institute of Chicago.[16] A book with the artist Philippe Parreno, Conversation, was published by Serralves Museum in 2017.[17]

Thirlwell wrote a short film, Everyday Performance Artists, for Channel 4's Random Acts, directed by Polly Stenham and starring the voice of Shia LaBeouf, with Gemma Chan, James Norton, and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett, in 2016.[18] In 2018, he wrote and directed Utopia, starring Lily Cole, Lily McMenamy and Babirye Bukilwa.[19]

His writing is published in The New York Times, Le Monde, and La Repubblica, as well as the New York Review of Books, The New Republic, and The Believer.[20] He has written columns for The Guardian and Esquire. In May 2015, he was named London editor of the Paris Review.[2]

In June 2018 Thirlwell was elected Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in its "40 Under 40" initiative.[21]

Awards

Bibliography

Novels

  • Politics (2003)
  • The Escape (2009)
  • Lurid & Cute (2015)
  • The Future Future (2023)[25]

Essays

  • Miss Herbert (US: The Delighted States) (2007)

Articles

  • Thirlwell, Adam (October 2008). "Amerikas". The Believer. 6 (8): 3–17.

As editor

  • Multiples: 12 Stories in 18 Languages by 61 Authors, edited by Adam Thirlwell

See also

References

  1. ^ "American Academy of Arts and Letters - Literature Awards Press Release". Archived from the original on 15 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  2. ^ a b Stein, Lorin, "New on the Masthead: Susannah Hunnewell and Adam Thirlwell", Paris Review, 20 May 2015.
  3. ^ Anonymous. "Search results: Adam Thirlwell". Oxford University Gazette. Retrieved 25 October 2007.[permanent dead link‍]
  4. ^ Anonymous. "Search results: Adam Thirlwell". Free University of Berlin. Archived from the original on 6 August 2011.
  5. ^ "Metaphysical Club | Domus Academy". Archived from the original on 28 March 2015. Retrieved 24 March 2015.
  6. ^ "Politics by Adam Thirlwell | Neel Mukherjee". Archived from the original on 3 September 2012.
  7. ^ Churchwell, Sarah (8 August 2009). "The Escape by Adam Thirlwell". The Guardian.
  8. ^ "VINTAGE | World class writing. Beautiful design. Ideas that matter".
  9. ^ "Become an FT subscriber to read | Financial Times". Financial Times. 16 January 2015.
  10. ^ O’Connell, Mark (3 August 2023). "The Future Future by Adam Thirlwell review – the historical novel, subverted". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 18 October 2023.
  11. ^ Eder, Richard (18 June 2008). "A Portrait of the Critic as a Delirious Young Man". The New York Times.
  12. ^ "McSweeney's Issue 42".
  13. ^ "How do We Achieve a Global Conversation Without Entering a Pre-Babel World? | Frieze". 22 July 2019.
  14. ^ "Visual Editions : Kapow!". Archived from the original on 9 April 2012.
  15. ^ "Beazley Designs of the Year Overview".
  16. ^ "Visual Editions : Museum Moment". Archived from the original on 6 March 2013.
  17. ^ "Philippe Parreno: A Time Coloured Space".
  18. ^ "Talent line-up announced for new series of Random Acts | Channel 4".
  19. ^ "Tank Magazine".
  20. ^ "Adam Thirlwell : Small Productions". Archived from the original on 19 November 2012. Retrieved 10 May 2012.
  21. ^ Flood, Alison (28 June 2018). "Royal Society of Literature admits 40 new fellows to address historical biases". The Guardian. Retrieved 3 July 2018.
  22. ^ http://www.societyofauthors.org/betty-trask-past-winners Archived 22 July 2011 at the Wayback Machine,
  23. ^ "Encore". Archived from the original on 24 December 2011. Retrieved 15 April 2012.
  24. ^ "Orwell Prizes 2024 shortlists announced". Books+Publishing. 11 June 2024. Retrieved 24 June 2024.
  25. ^ "Penguin – The Future Future". Retrieved 3 August 2023.

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