Mark Thompson (historian)
Mark Thompson (born 1959) is a British
The White War. Life and Death on the Italian Front, 1915-1919 (2008)[2] is the first comprehensive narrative history in English of the part played by Italy in World War I. It was selected as Book of the Week by The Guardian newspaper, and hailed there as "magnificent ... original, masterly and definitive."[3]
Forging War (1999) is an account of the
A Paper House (1992) is a political travelogue which describes the federal republic of Yugoslavia upon the brink of dissolution.
Thompson has also edited, with Louis Mackay, Something in the Wind: Politics after Chernobyl (1988), and has translated fiction from French, Italian and Croatian.
His CV includes stints as the head of media analysis for the biggest peacekeeping mission mounted by the
In 2015, Thompson took up a position as Reader in Modern History at the University of East Anglia (half time). He lives in Oxford, where he supervises a small number of undergraduate and graduate students at the Faculty of History. Thompson is an alumnus of Merchant Taylors' School, Northwood.
Awards and honours
- 2009 Hessell-Tiltman Prize winner for The White War[5]
- 2009 Orwell Prize shortlist for The White War[6]
- 2013 National Book Critics Circle Award (Biography) shortlist for Birth Certificate[7][8]
- 2015 Jan Michalski Prize for Literature winner for Birth Certificate: The Story of Danilo Kiš[9]
References
- Times Literary Supplement. Retrieved 9 February 2016.
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- ^ Brendon, Piers (30 August 2008). "The open veins of Italy". The Guardian.
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- ^ "PEN Hessell-Tiltman Prize". Englishpen.org. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
- ^ "The Orwell Prize". The Orwell Prize. Retrieved 31 December 2015.
- ^ Kirsten Reach (14 January 2014). "NBCC finalists announced". Melville House Publishing. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- ^ "Announcing the National Book Critics Awards Finalists for Publishing Year 2013". National Book Critics Circle. 14 January 2014. Archived from the original on 15 January 2014. Retrieved 14 January 2014.
- ^ "2015 Edition". Jan Michalski Prize for Literature. Retrieved 27 November 2015.