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John Lanchester

John Lanchester
John Lanchester - Leipzig 2013.jpg
Leipzig 2013
Born John Henry Lanchester
(1962-02-25) 25 February 1962 (age 55)
Hamburg
Language English
Nationality British
Genre Literary fiction, Business
Notable awards

Whitbread Book Award
1996

E. M. Forster Award
2008

Whitbread Book Award
1996

John Henry Lanchester (born 25 February 1962) is a British journalist and novelist. He was born in Hamburg, brought up in Hong Kong and educated in England; between 1972 and 1980 at Gresham's School in Holt, Norfolk, then at St John's College, Oxford. He is married to historian and author Miranda Carter, with whom he has two children, and lives in London.

Lanchester is the author of novels, a memoir, non-fiction and journalism.

His journalism has appeared in the London Review of Books (where he is a Contributing Editor), Granta, The Observer, The New York Review of Books, The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph and The New Yorker. He also regularly writes on food and technology for Esquire.

The Debt to Pleasure (1996) won the 1996 Whitbread Book Award in the First Novel category and the 1997 Hawthornden Prize. It was described as a skilful and wickedly funny account of the life of a loquacious Englishman named Tarquin Winot, revealed through his thoughts on cuisine as he undertakes a mysterious journey around France. The revelations become more and more shocking as the truth about the narrator becomes apparent. He is a monster, and yet an appealing and erudite villain.


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