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Edward Docx

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Cheshire, England, The United Kingdom

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http://www.edwarddocx.com/

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Literature & Fiction

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Edward Docx was born in 1972 in the north of England. He grew up in Cheshire and London. After school, he went to Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature and was Junior Common Room President.

He began his professional writing career working on the national newspapers. In 2003, his first novel, The Calligrapher, was published to widespread acclaim. It was selected by the San Francisco Chronicle and the San Jose Mercury News as a Best Book of the Year and is now translated into eight languages.

In 2007, his second novel, Pravda (entitled Self Help in the UK), was published; it was long-listed for the Man Booker and went on to win The Geoffrey Faber Prize. In 2003 and then again in 2007, Docx travelled in South America as p...more

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Books by Edward Docx

Average rating: 3.45 · 546 ratings · 150 reviews · 6 distinct works

	The Calligrapher: A Novel 3.54 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 2003 — 5 editions	My rating:
	Pravda: A Novel 3.35 avg rating — 234 ratings — published 2006 — 9 editions	My rating:
	The Devil's Garden 3.14 avg rating — 22 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions	My rating:
	A Good Man 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2007	My rating:
	Kalligraf 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2005	My rating:
	On Death by John Donne, Edward Docx (Foreword) 4.00 avg rating — 2 ratings — published 2008	My rating:

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“Childhood: it was like trying to chart an entire continent by the brief flare of a firework. Except that you had no idea that this was your only chance to explore for free, and instead you spent the five seconds of precious light gawping at the sky, stuffing treacle into your mouth. And then it went dark again.”
― Edward Docx, Pravda: A Novel

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