D.M. Thomas

Born

in Redruth, Cornwall, England, The United Kingdom

January 27, 1935

Website

http://www.dmthomasonline.net

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Poetry, Biographies & Memoirs

Influences

Alexander Pushkin, Robert Frost, Anna Akhmatova, William Shakespeare, ...more

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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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I have just published a verse novel called Vintage Ghosts (Francis Boutle publishers, London). It relates the experience of a group of (mostly) old men who regularly look at and write to a website full of vintage images like the one depicted. They yearn for the glamour and innocent eroticism of their youth. It's highly entertaining. At least, it entertained me! Read more of this blog post »

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	The White Hotel 3.84 avg rating — 4,235 ratings — published 1981 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Ararat 3.39 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1983 — 7 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Pictures At An Exhibition 3.72 avg rating — 106 ratings — published 1993 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Flute-Player 3.58 avg rating — 98 ratings — published 1979 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Eating Pavlova 3.33 avg rating — 80 ratings — published 1994 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Alexander Solzhenitsyn: A Century in His Life 4.03 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1998 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Swallow 3.19 avg rating — 63 ratings — published 1984 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Birthstone 3.17 avg rating — 47 ratings — published 1980 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flying in to Love 3.59 avg rating — 54 ratings — published 1992 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Charlotte: Bronte Revelations: The Final Journeys of Jane Eyre by D.M. Thomas, Charlotte Brontë 2.59 avg rating — 46 ratings — published 2000 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“I didn't know till then the stars, in flakes
of snow come down to fuck the earth, the lake.”
― D.M. Thomas, The White Hotel

tags: poetry, sex, the-white-hotel

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“She wondered if she had grown obsessed with sex. She admitted to thinking about it almost all the time. ... "And if I'm not thinking about sex, I'm thinking about death," she added bitterly. "Sometimes both at the same time.”
― D.M. Thomas, The White Hotel

tags: death, sex

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

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