Sam Taylor (author)
Sam Taylor (born 1970) is a British author, translator and former pop culture correspondent for The Observer, a job he left in 2001.[1] His first book, The Republic of Trees, was published in 2005 and received critical acclaim.[2] His second novel, The Amnesiac, tells the story of James Purdew, a man obsessed with uncovering the events of three years of his life about which he remembers nothing.[2] Taylor lives in Texas with his family.
Taylor, along with Laurent Binet won the Sidewise Award for Alternate History in 2022 for his translation of Binet's novel Civilizations.[3]
The Amnesiac
His 2007 book The Amnesiac includes the fictional main character James Purdew and a character named Tomas Ryal
Bibliography
- The Republic of Trees (Faber, 2005)
- The Amnesiac (Faber, 2007)
- The Island at the End of the World (Faber, 2009)
- The Ground is Burning - published as Samuel Black (Faber, 2011) [7]
Translations
Taylor also works as a translator, from French to English. These are some of the works he has translated:
- HHhH (by Laurent Binet) (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2012)
- A Meal in Winter (Un repas en hiver by Hubert Mingarelli) (2012)
- The Victoria System (Hamish Hamilton, 2013)
- The truth about the Harry Quebert affair, (MacLehose Press, 2014)
- The Age of Reinvention, (L'invention de nos vies by Karine Tuil) (2015)
- Four Soldiers (Quatre Soldats by Hubert Mingarelli) (2018)
- Lullaby (Chanson Douce by Leïla Slimani) (2018)
- Adèle (Dans le jardin de l'ogre by Leïla Slimani) (2019)
- Civilizations (by Laurent Binet) (2021)
- Of Fangs and Talons (Aux animaux la guerre by Nicolas Mathieu) (2021)
- Rose Royal: A Love Story (Rose Royal by Nicolas Mathieu) (2022)
References
- ^ "Sam Taylor". www.amheath.com. Archived from the original on 1 May 2013.
- ^ a b Sam Taylor's top 10 books about forgetting guardian.co.uk April 18, 2007 [1]
- ^ "2022 Sidewise Award Winners". 3 September 2022. Retrieved 23 October 2022.
- ^ Lichtig, Toby (11 March 2007), "Enter a beautifully perplexing world", The Daily Telegraph, retrieved 31 May 2008[dead link]
- ^ "One of the most compelling chapters is a fake biography for a fictional Czech philosopher called Tomas Ryal. (Taylor, somewhat cheekily, has "quoted" from Ryal in interview, and someone has, even more cheekily, given him a Wikipedia entry.)" Toby Lichtig Enter a beautifully perplexing world March 14, 2007 Telegraph (UK) [2]
- ^ Tomas Ryal's life story at the Encyclopedia Labyrinthus
- ^ The Literary Tourist Interviews Sam Taylor
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