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DUNTHORNE, JOE
Email: joedunthorne@gmail.com
Website: www.myspace.com/joedunthorne and www.joedunthorne.com
Novelist and poet. Joe was born and raised in Swansea. He graduated from the Creative Writing Prose MA at the University of East Anglia where he was awarded the Curtis Brown Prize. He has performed his work widely, including at the Hay, Latitude, Brick Lane and New Writing Types festivals. Joe has published mini-collections of his poetry in Reactions 5 (Pen and Inc Press, 2005) and Generation Txt (Penned in the Margins, 2006). In 2005 he traveled to Bangladesh with the British Council as part of a writing exchange project with young Bangladeshi writers.
Joe has led workshops in both prose and poetry and is an associate lecturer in creative writing at the Open University. His first novel, Submarine, was published in the UK by Hamish Hamilton in spring 2008 and is being published in a further seven countries as well as being translated into four languages. It was short-listed for the 2008 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize and long-listed for both the 2008 Desmond Elliott Prize and the 2008 Dylan Thomas Prize. He is twenty-six years old and based in London.
Reviews:
With respect to Submarine (Hamish Hamilton, 2008)
“…Joe Dunthorne’s perfectly pitched Submarine recalls JD Salinger…(he)…can, at times, make you laugh like you did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon…”
Tim Adams, The Observer
Selected Publications:
Submarine (Hamish Hamilton, 2008)
Contributed to:
Reactions 5 (Pen and Inc Press, 2005)
Generation Txt (Penned in the Margins, 2006)
Submarine (Hamish Hamilton, 2008)
Hello. I’m Oliver Tate, the protagonist. I am likely to use words like protagonist and, moments later, words like twonk. My ambitions are as follows: to find out why my father sometimes stays in bed for days at a time; to find out why my mother’s getting surfing lessons - and probably more - from a hippy-looking twonk; and to lose my virginity before it becomes legal - in just over a year. I am monitoring my parent’s intimacy via the dimmer switch in their bedroom. My parents have not had sex in two months which, my research suggests, points toward impending marital breakdown. There are other, lesser characters in the book: Jordana, who is my love interest, despite her eczema. Zoe, whose only real schoolfriend is a dinner lady. I feel sorry for Zoe which, in turn, makes me feel better about my own life. Then there’s my friend Chips, an outstanding bully. He made our Religious Education teacher cry. This book might not change my life. But there is no telling
how you will react.
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