Chris cleave biographical information
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Chris Cleave
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Chris Cleave is a novelist and a columnist for The Guardian newspaper in London. He is only 5′7″ tall. His debut novel Incendiary won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers Prize, won the United States Book-of-the-Month Club’s First Fiction award 2005 and won the Prix Spécial du Jury at the French Prix des Lecteurs 2007. Inspired by his childhood in West Africa and by an accidental visit to a British concentration camp, Chris Cleave’s second novel is entitled The Other Hand in the UK, Australia, New Zealand and South Africa. It is entitled Little Bee in the US and Canada. Chris Cleave has been a barman, a long-distance sailor, a teacher of marine navigation, an internet pioneer and a journalist. He lives in London with his French wife and two mischievous Anglo-French children.
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Series
Books:
Everyone Brave is Forgiven, May 2016Hardcover / e-Book
Gold, July 2012
Hardcover / e-Book
Incendiary, January 2011
Trade Size
Little Bee, February 2010
Paperback (reprint)
Little Bee, February 2009
Hardcover
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Chris Cleave
British scribbler and journalist
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Biography
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Writing
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Gold, his gear novel, was called "bold and brave" by The Obser
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Chris Cleave
Goodreads Author
Born
in London, The United KingdomWebsite
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Genre
Literature & Fiction
Influences
Virginia Woolf, Cormac McCarthy, Zola Emile Zola, John Steinbeck, HowaVirginia Woolf, Cormac McCarthy, Zola Emile Zola, John Steinbeck, Howard Jacobson, [a:Annie Prou...more
Member Since
September 2008
URL
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Chris Cleave was born in London and spent his early years in Cameroon. He studied experimental psychology at Balliol College, Oxford. His debut novel, INCENDIARY, won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award, was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize, and is now a feature film. His second novel, LITTLE BEE, is a New York Times #1 bestseller with over 2 million copies in print. GOLD is his third novel. He lives in London with his wife and three children. Chris Cleave enjoys dialogue with his readers and invites all comers to introduce themselves on Twitter; he can be found at twitter.com/chriscleave or on his website at http://www.chriscleave.com
Q & A
What was your favourite childhood book?
The Voyage of the Dawn Treader by CS Lewis
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