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Chris Power

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Chris Power is a British writer and literary critic for The Guardian.

He was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire.[1] He studied English and American literature at Swansea University, graduating in 1998.[2]

He has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director.[1]

Power has been writing a regular column for The Guardian about the short story as a literary form since 2007.[3] He has also presented the BBC Radio Four programme Open Book.[1]

He has cited Roberto Bolaño and Denis Johnson as literary influences.[1]

Power's first book of short stories, Mothers: Stories, was published in 2018 in Britain and in 2019 in the United States.[4]

His first novel, A Lonely Man, was published in April 2021.[5]

Power is married with two daughters and lives in London.[1]

References

  1. ^ a b c d e "Guardian 03 April 2021" https://www.theguardian.com/books/2021/apr/03/chris-power-you-burn-reality-to-fuel-the-fiction
  2. ^ https://uk.linkedin.com/in/chrisjohnpower
  3. ^ Hurlburt, Ann (January 2019). "Riveting Stories About Restless Wanderers". The Atlantic.
    - Rosen, Christine (May 2019). "Mothers: Stories (brief review)". Commentary.
  4. ^ McAloon, Jonathan (30 June 2018). "Mothers (book review)". The Spectator.
    - Thomas-Kennedy, Jackie (25 January 2019). "Review: 'Mothers: Stories,' by Chris Power". Star-Tribune. Retrieved 8 May 2019.
  5. ^ "A Lonely Man".