Sam North
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Sam North | |
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| Born | August 30, 1960 Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom |
| Nationality | British |
| Occupation(s) | Novelist, screenwriter, lecturer |
| Awards | Somerset Maugham Prize |
Sam North (born 30 August 1960) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[1]
Early life
North was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and worked as a groom, a motorcycle messenger, a runner on film sets, and on building sites.[2]
Career
North's first novel, The Automatic Man, won the
Somerset Maugham Prize. His 2004 novel, The Unnumbered, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.[3] North has written two books about writing, Five Analogies for Fiction Writing and The Instinctive Screenplay. He works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[4]
Works
- The Automatic Man (1989)
- The Unnumbered (2004)
- Five Analogies for Fiction Writing (2014)
- The Instinctive Screenplay (2017)
References
- ^ "University of Exeter".
- ^ "University of Exeter".
- ^ "Man Booker Prize". 5 April 2004.
- ^ "Professor Sam North".
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