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Sam North

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Sam North
Born (1960-08-30) August 30, 1960 (age 64)
Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom
NationalityBritish
Occupation(s)Novelist, screenwriter, lecturer
AwardsSomerset Maugham Prize

Sam North (born 30 August 1960) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[1]

Early life

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North was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and worked as a groom, a motorcycle messenger, a runner on film sets, and on building sites.[2]

Career

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North's first novel, The Automatic Man, won the Somerset Maugham Prize. His 2004 novel, The Unnumbered, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.[3] North has written two books about writing, Five Analogies for Fiction Writing and The Instinctive Screenplay. He works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.[4]

Works

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  • The Automatic Man (1989)
  • The Unnumbered (2004)
  • Five Analogies for Fiction Writing (2014)
  • The Instinctive Screenplay (2017)

References

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  1. ^ "University of Exeter".
  2. ^ "University of Exeter".
  3. ^ "Man Booker Prize". 5 April 2004.
  4. ^ "Professor Sam North".
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