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Lawrence Norfolk

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born

January 01, 1963 in London, The United Kingdom

gender

male

genre

Historical Fiction, Literature & Fiction

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Lawrence Norfolk (born 1963) is a British novelist known for historical works with complex plots and intricate detail. His novels are also known for their unusually large vocabulary.

He was born in London but lived in Iraq until 1967 and then in the West Country of England. He read English at King's College London and graduated in 1986. He worked briefly as a teacher and later as a freelance writer for reference book publishers.

In 1992, he won the Somerset Maugham Award for his first novel, Lemprière's Dictionary, about events surrounding the publication, in 1788, of John Lemprière's Bibliotheca Classica on classical mythology and history.

His second novel, The Pope's Rhinoceros, is based on the history of an actual animal also known as Dürer...more

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Books by Lawrence Norfolk

Average rating: 3.61 · 518 ratings · 71 reviews · 8 distinct works

	Lemprière's Dictionary 3.68 avg rating — 284 ratings — published 1991 — 19 editions	My rating:
	The Pope's Rhinoceros 3.52 avg rating — 140 ratings — 12 editions	My rating:
	In the Shape of a Boar 3.47 avg rating — 62 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions	My rating:
	John Saturnall's Feast 4.00 avg rating — 3 ratings — expected publication 2012 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Ott's Sneeze 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2002	My rating:
	The Oxford And Cambridge May Anthologies 2000: Short Stories 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2000	My rating:
	The Time Out Book of London Short Stories by Maria Lexton (Editor), Christopher Fowler (Contributor), Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author) (Contributor) 3.08 avg rating — 12 ratings	My rating:
	BEA BUZZ BOOKS: EXCERPTS FROM OVER 30 TOP FALL 2012 TITLES by Libba Bray (Goodreads Author) (author), Junot Díaz, Jenny Han (Goodreads Author) 4.80 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2012	My rating:

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