Lanchester, John

biography

John Lanchester (born 1962 in Hamburg) is a British journalist and novelist. His debut novel, The Debt to Pleasure, was published in 1996 by Picador. It has been followed by three novels: Mr Phillips (2000), Fragrant Harbour (2002), and Capital (2012). He has also published several works of non-fiction – two concerning economy, Whoops! Why Everyone Owes Everyone and No One Can Pay (2010), How to Speak Money: What the Money People Say –And What It Really Means (2014), and an essay about the London underground, What We Talk about When We Talk about the Tube: The District Line (2013). Moreover, he published a memoir, Family Romance: A Love Story (2007).

For his novel The Debt to Pleasure, Lanchester won the Betty Trask Prize in 1996, the Julia Child Award in 1996, the Whitbread Book Award in 1996, and the Hawthornden Prize in 1997. He has contributed to a variety of publications including Granta, The Observer, The Guardian, and The New Yorker. He also regularly writes on food and technology for a men’s magazine Esquire.

He lives and works in London.

 

– compiled by Ilona Czarnecka

 

The following are links to websites with information about the author and his works:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Lanchester

http://literature.britishcouncil.org/john-lanchester