Occupation Writer Role Writer Language English Education Balliol College | Subject Literary fiction Movies Incendiary Name Chris Cleave | |
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Alma mater Balliol College, Oxford Notable works Incendiary
The Other Hand Nominations Goodreads Choice Awards Best Fiction Books The Other Hand, Incendiary, Gold, Gold Sneak Preview, Something to Read About: A | ||
Interview with chris cleave
Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist.
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- Interview with chris cleave
- Interview with author chris cleave
- Biography
- Writing
- Novels
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Interview with author chris cleave
Biography
Cleave was born in London on May 14, 1973, brought up in Cameroon and Buckinghamshire, and educated at Balliol College, Oxford where he studied psychology. He lives in the United Kingdom with his French wife and three children.
Writing
Cleave's debut novel Incendiary was published in twenty countries and has been adapted into a feature film starring Michelle Williams and Ewan McGregor. The novel won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The audio book version was read by Australian actor, Susan Lyons
His second novel, The Other Hand, was released in August 2008 and was described as "A powerful piece of art... shocking, exciting and deeply affecting... superb" by The Independent. It has been shortlisted for the 2008 Costa Book Awards in the Novel category. Cleave was inspired to write The Other Hand from his childhood in West Africa. It was released in the US and Canada in January 2009 under the title Little Bee, and will be adapted into a film starring Nicole Kidman by Blossom Films in association with BBC Films.
Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. From 2008 until 2010 he wrote a column for The Guardian entitled "Down with the kids".