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D.M. Thomas

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born

January 27, 1935 in Redruth, The United Kingdom

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male

website

http://www.dmthomasonline.net

genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs

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D.M. Thomas was born in Cornwall in 1935. After reading English at New College, Oxford, he became a teacher and was Head of the English Department at Hereford College of Education until he became a full-time writer. His first novel The Flute-Player won the Gollancz Pan/Picador Fantasy Competition. He is also known for his collections of verse and his translation from the Russian poet Anna Akhmatova.

He was awarded the Los Angeles Fiction prize for his novel The White Hotel, an international bestseller, translated into 30 languages; a Cholmondeley award for poetry; and the Orwell Prize for his biography of Alexander Solzhenitsyn. He lives in his native Cornwall, England.

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Average rating: 3.89 · 2,260 ratings · 192 reviews · 40 distinct works

	The White Hotel 3.80 avg rating — 1,381 ratings — published 1981 — 17 editions	My rating:
	Ararat Thomas 3.36 avg rating — 55 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Pictures At An Exhibition 3.70 avg rating — 37 ratings — published 1993 — 3 editions	My rating:
	The Flute Player 3.38 avg rating — 26 ratings — published 1979 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Flying in to Love by D.M. Thomas, Thomas 3.50 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 1992 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Eating Pavlova 3.29 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Swallow 2.96 avg rating — 23 ratings — 4 editions	My rating:
	Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life 4.00 avg rating — 15 ratings — 3 editions	My rating:
	Charlotte: Bronte Revelations: The Final Journeys of Jane Eyre by D.M. Thomas, Charlotte Brontë 2.92 avg rating — 13 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	Lying Together 3.44 avg rating — 9 ratings — published 1990 — 3 editions	My rating:

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“Can you feel the blood falling?”
― D.M. Thomas, White Hotel

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