Rupert Thomson

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Rupert Thomson (born in Eastbourne in November 1955) is a British novelist.

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Following the sudden death of his mother, Rupert Thomson was educated as a boarder at Christ's Hospital School. At seventeen, he was awarded a scholarship to Sidney Sussex College, Cambridge, where he studied Medieval History and Political Thought. He worked for four years as a copywriter in London, before abandoning his job to write full-time. Once described as "one of the strangest and most refreshingly un-English voices in contemporary fiction", and compared to writers as various as Charles Dickens, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mervyn Peake and JG Ballard, he is the author of eight widely-acclaimed novels, the most recent of which, Death of a Murderer, was shortlisted for the Costa Novel of the Year. His sixth novel, The Book of Revelation, was made into a feature film by the Australian writer/director, Ana Kokkinos. With his 2010 memoir, "This Party's Got to Stop", he has ventured into non-fiction for the first time, and explores events surrounding his father's death, and his complex relationship with his brothers and extended family. He has lived in many cities throughout the world, including Berlin and Barcelona. He currently resides in South London.

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