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D M Thomas
D M Thomas was born in Redruth, Cornwall, in 1935. After attending Grammar
Schools in Redruth and Melbourne, Australia, he was awarded a First in
English at New College, Oxford. For many years he was a teacher and lecturer,
while writing and publishing poetry. In 1979 he became a full-time writer.
He has published seven collections of verse, including The Puberty Tree
(1992); thirteen novels, including the modern classic The White Hotel
(1981), translated into twenty seven languages; translations of Russian
poetry, a biography and a memoir. He has won a Cholmondeley Prize for
poetry, the Los Angeles Times fiction prize, and the Orwell Prize for
his biography of Solzhenitsyn. He has a daughter and two sons, and lives
in Truro.
For further information and a bibliography please
consult www.dmthomasonline.com
or visit Don's blog at:
www.don-whitehotel.blogspot.com
for readings and future events - click here
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