Tim Parks
| Tim Parks | |
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| Born |
19 December 1954 Manchester, England |
| Occupation | Author, translator |
| Nationality | British |
| Alma mater | Cambridge University |
| Period | 1985– |
| Notable works | Europa |
| Partner | Rita Baldassarre |
| Website | |
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Timothy Harold "Tim" Parks (born 19 December 1954 in Manchester) is a British novelist, translator and author.
Parks was born in Manchester in 1954, the second son of the Rev Harold Parks and Joan (née McDowell). He has described his parents as "hyper-religious" and has related that when he was 12 years old they joined the charismatic movement; he later drew on his experiences from this time in his debut novel Tongues of Flame. He grew up in Finchley, London, where visitors to the family home included the local MP, Margaret Thatcher, and was educated at Downing College, University of Cambridge and Harvard.
Parks is the author of several works of fiction (notably Europa, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1997) and non-fiction. His first novel, Tongues of Flame, won both a Betty Trask Award and Somerset Maugham Award in 1986. In the same year, he was awarded the Mail on Sunday/John Llewellyn Rhys Prize for Loving Roger.
He has also worked as a teacher and translator. Since relocating to Verona, Parks has taught Literary Translation and Technical Translation at the Independent University of Modern Languages (IULM), formerly the Free University of Languages and Communication, in nearby Milan. His non-fiction book Translating Style has been described as "canonical in the field of translation studies".
His own translations include works by Alberto Moravia, Antonio Tabucchi, Italo Calvino and Roberto Calasso.
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