Francis Spufford
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Francis Spufford is also the author of I May Be Some Time. He was named Sunday Times (London) Young Writer of the Year and received the 1997 Somerset Maugham and Writers' Guild awards. He lives in London
Tekijän teokset
Unapologetic: Why, Despite Everything, Christianity Can Still Make Surprising Emotional Sense (2012) 394 kappaletta
The Ends of the Earth: An Anthology of the Finest Writing on the Arctic and the Antarctic (2007) — Toimittaja; Avustaja — 125 kappaletta
The Stone Table 1 kappale
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Yleistieto
- Syntymäaika
- 1964
- Sukupuoli
- male
- Kansalaisuus
- UK
- Asuinpaikat
- Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, UK
- Koulutus
- University of Cambridge (Trinity Hall| BA)
- Ammatit
- non-fiction writer
- Suhteet
- Spufford, Margaret (mother)
Spufford, Peter (father) - Organisaatiot
- Goldsmiths, University of London
- Palkinnot ja kunnianosoitukset
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature
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2021 Booker Prize Longlist: Light Perpetual by Francis Spufford, Booker Prize (elokuu 2021)
Golden Hill by Francis Spufford, Historical Fiction (helmikuu 2017)
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Bibliomemoirs (1)
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A certain Mr. Smith lands in New York fresh from England, and in need of exchanging an order for £1000. Such a phenomenal amount of money makes him the subject of much gossip, and an assured place in society. But all does not run smoothly. Pick pockets, a shrewish woman whom he nevertheless falls for, dissenters, bankers, churchgoers all rollick through the narrative. There are roof-top adventures, river trips, gaols, long mornings in coffee houses. Surprise tumbles in after surprise, though the biggest one of all is kept till last. I'm glad I read it. I repeat. I must read it again.… (lisätietoja)