adam thirlwell (born 22 august 1978) is a british novelist. his work has been translated into thirty languages. he has twice been named as one of granta's best of young british novelists. ==life== thirlwell was educated at the independent haberdashers' aske's boys' school, elstree. he read english at new college, oxford, where he got the top first. he was a prize fellow of all souls college, oxford between 2000 and 2007, and worked as assistant editor at the literary magazine aretÃ©. he now lives in london. in 2011 he was the s fischer guest professor of comparative literature at the freie universitÃ¤t berlin. ==work== thirlwell is the author of two novels, politics (2003) http://www.neelmukherjee.com/articles/politics-by-adam-thirlwell/ and the escape (2009) described by milan kundera as "a novel where the humour is melancholic, the melancholy mischievous, and the talent startling.".http://www.vintage-books.co.uk/books/0099539837/adam-thirlwell/the-escape/ he is also the author of a project on the novel and translation, which includes a book first published in 2007, which was chosen as a book of the year by tom stoppard in the guardian and a. s. byatt in the times literary supplement; and, as guest editor, an anthology of multiple translations for mcsweeney's quarterly.https://store.mcsweeneys.net/products/mcsweeneys-issue-42 an experimental book with unfolding pages called kapow!, designed by studio frith, was published by visual editions in 2012.http://www.visual-editions.com/our-books/kapow it was nominated for the design museum's 2013 designs of the year awards http://designmuseum.org/exhibitions/2013/designs-of-the-year-2013 and has been included in the permanent collection of the art institute of chicago.http://www.visual-editions.com/articles/museum-moment his writing is published in the [[new york times
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