Jonathan Trigell

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Jonathan Trigell

Jonathan Trigell was born in Hertfordshire, but now lives in Chamonix Mont Blanc in France. He is the author of five thematically very different novels: Boy A; Cham; Genus; The Tongues of Men or Angels and Under Country. Much acclaimed, Jonathan has won the Waverton Award for best first novel of 2004; the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, for best book in the commonwealth by an author under thirty five; the Italian Edoardo Kihlgren Prize, for a translated novel; and the inaugural World Book Day Prize, for the most discussion worthy novel by a living writer. Boy A was turned into a film, directed by John Crowley and starring Andrew Garfield and Peter Mullan. It won a total of four BAFTA Awards in 2008; the Jury Prize at the Berlin Film Festival and the Jury and Public Prizes at the Dinard Film Festival.

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