Talk:Max Porter (writer)

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Thank you for approving this biography page :) An infobox would improve it as a next step I think, with basic biographical information and maybe a creative commons image from somewhere if anyone can find one? Alexithelion (talk) 18:49, 23 June 2019 (UTC)[reply]

rejected version[edit]

Here is one I wrote up in March 2019 that was rejected for some reason. I can't be bothered to do more work on it but some of it may be salvageable.


Max Porter is a British novelist. He has published two novels, Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]

His first novel was published in 27 territories[9] and was subsequently adapted for the stage, first in Galway and then at the Barbican Centre in London, directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy.[10][11][12]

Lanny was the subject of a dramatic reading at the Southbank Centre in London performed by Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Mangan and Lydia Wilson.[13] The book is set to be adapted for screen starring Rachel Weisz.[14][15]

Lanny was longlisted for the Booker Prize in 2019.[16]

References

  1. ^ Smith-Laing, Tim (11 March 2019). "Lanny by Max Porter review: a startling, moving follow-up to Grief is the Thing with Feathers". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
  2. ^ Kemp, Review by Peter. "Review: Lanny by Max Porter — this novel is a remarkable feat of literary virtuosity". www.thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  3. ^ Adams, Tim (5 March 2019). "Lanny by Max Porter review – genuine raw emotional edge". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  4. ^ "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 April 2019. {{cite web}}: Cite uses generic title (help)
  5. ^ "Lanny​ by Max Porter - review". Evening Standard. 28 February 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019. {{cite web}}: zero width space character in |title= at position 6 (help)
  6. ^ "Love, death and loss in a small village – Lanny reviewed". The Spectator. 2 March 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  7. ^ "Book review: Lanny, by Max Porter". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Book review: Lanny, by Max Porter". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  9. ^ "Max Porter's 'devastating' second novel to Faber - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  10. ^ Crawley, Peter. "Enda Walsh: Grief is the Thing with Feathers floored me". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  11. ^ "Cillian Murphy to star in Grief is the Thing With Feathers in London". Evening Standard. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  12. ^ Meany, Helen (22 March 2018). "Grief is the Thing With Feathers review – Cillian Murphy takes wing". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  13. ^ "126576 Max Porter: Lanny 2019". Southbank Centre. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  14. ^ "Weisz to star in film adaptation of Porter's Lanny - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  15. ^ Clarke, Stewart; Clarke, Stewart (7 March 2019). "Rachel Weisz Set to Produce, Star in 'Lanny' Adaptation". variety.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  16. ^ https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2019/07/23/booker-prize-longlist-2019-1000-page-novel-one-sentence/

Life[edit]

Porter was born in High Wycombe in 1981, went to the local state grammar and studied history of art up to MA level at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.[1] He became a bookseller and then an editor at Granta.[2] In a 2016 interview with the Times Literary Supplement he claimed to be 'a good freestyle rapper'.[3] He is married with three children, but has been described in interviews as 'guarded about his personal life'.[4]

In 2019, he was named as a guest curator for the Cheltenham Literary Festival.[5]

References

  1. ^ Crown, Sarah (12 September 2015). "Max Porter: 'The experience of the boys in the novel is based on my dad dying when I was six'". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Books and Authors, Max Porter, Folk resurgence in literature, Angie Thomas on Hip Hop". BBC. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  3. ^ "The TLS Interview: Twenty Questions with Max Porter". TheTLS. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  4. ^ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/books-interview-max-porter-the-sunday-times-peters-fraser-and-dunlop-young-writer-of-the-year-rhcbktwbj
  5. ^ http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-detail/?sf1=cms_pagename&st1=cheltenham-festival-announces--seven-at-seventy-celebrations&utm_source=daily-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter

Published works[edit]

  • Grief is the Thing with Feathers (2015)
  • Lanny (2019)

Reception[edit]

The critical reception for both novels has been positive.

Grief is the Thing with Feathers was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award[1] and the Goldsmiths Prize,[2] and won the Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer of the Year 2016[3][4][5] and the Dylan Thomas Prize.[6][7][8]

The New York Times wrote that Porter 'has an excellent ear for the flexibility of language and tone, juxtaposing colloquialisms against poetic images and metaphors'.[9] In 2016, The Times noted that 'reviewers had struggled to categorise' Grief is the Thing with Feathers,[10] and the Telegraph wrote that it 'brought him a level of success you might have thought unlikely given what it was: a jagged, elliptical prose poem that is both homage to Ted Hughes’s Crow sequence and a brutally beautiful depiction of two boys and their dad struggling after the death of their mother', noting that it won several awards and has sold 155,000 copies.[11] Adam Mars-Jones wrote in the London Review of Books that the book 'qualifies as a novel by the familiar logic of its not fitting any other category', calling it 'compact and splendid'.[12]

Lanny was endorsed by novelists Mark Haddon, Kamila Shamsie and Maggie O'Farrell and the poet Ocean Vuong. The Sunday Times wrote that it was a 'remarkable feat of literary virtuosity', but cautioning that 'very occasionally, a false note is struck'.[13] The book was shortlisted for the 2019 Gordon Burn Prize in June 2019.[14]

References

  1. ^ Cook, Diane; Obioma, Chigozie; Pomerantsev, Peter; Porter, Max; McMillan, Andrew; Taylor, Sara (13 November 2015). "Guardian first book award shortlist 2015". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  2. ^ "The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 shortlist". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  3. ^ "Porter named Young Writer of the Year". 8 December 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  4. ^ team, Code8. "Max Porter". youngwriteraward.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link)
  5. ^ "Max Porter scoops Young Writer of the Year award - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  6. ^ Flood, Alison (14 May 2016). "Dylan Thomas award goes to Max Porter's 'extraordinary feat'". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
  7. ^ "Max Porter wins £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
  8. ^ "Dylan Thomas prize shortlist announced". 28 March 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
  9. ^ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/books/review/grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers-by-max-porter.html
  10. ^ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/books-interview-max-porter-the-sunday-times-peters-fraser-and-dunlop-young-writer-of-the-year-rhcbktwbj
  11. ^ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/books-interview-max-porter-the-sunday-times-peters-fraser-and-dunlop-young-writer-of-the-year-rhcbktwbj
  12. ^ https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n02/adam-mars-jones/chop-chop-chop
  13. ^ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-lanny-by-max-porter-this-novel-is-a-remarkable-feat-of-literary-virtuosity-8l8v0fl0h
  14. ^ https://www.thebookseller.com/news/porter-and-barker-tussle-2019-gordon-burn-prize-1039986
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