Chris Cleave (born 1973) is a British writer and journalist.
Biography
Cleave was born in London on 14 May
1973, brought up in
Cameroon and
Buckinghamshire, and educated at Dr Challoner's Grammar School and Balliol College, Oxford, where he studied experimental psychology.
He lives in the UK with his French wife and three children.
Writing
Cleave's
debut novel Incendiary was published in twenty countries and has been adapted into a feature film starring Michelle Williams and
Ewan McGregor. The novel won a 2006 Somerset Maugham Award and was shortlisted for the 2006 Commonwealth Writers' Prize. The audiobook version was read by Australian actor
Susan Lyons.
His second novel, The Other Hand, was released in August 2008 and was described as "A powerful piece of art... shocking, exciting and deeply affecting... superb"
Gold, his third novel, was called "bold and brave" by The Observer.
Cleave is a columnist for The Guardian in London. From 2008 until 2010 he wrote a column for The Guardian entitled "Down with the kids".
Bibliography
Novels
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Incendiary (2005)
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The Other Hand (2008, Sceptre), published as Little Bee in the United States and Canada.
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Gold (2012)
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Everyone Brave Is Forgiven (2016)
Short stories
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"Quiet Time"
[(Big Issue Australia, 2006)]
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"Fresh Water"
[ Sea Stories (anthology) (National Maritime Museum, 2007)]
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"Oyster"
[ 3:AM London, New York, Paris (anthology) (Social Disease, 2008)]
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