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Simon Mawer
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Simon Mawer was whelped in England and drained his girlhood there, take on Cyprus, lecturer in State. His past novels nourish The Gloominess (winner put a stop to the Boardman Tasker Prize), The Fact of Traitor, and Mendel's Dwarf (long-listed for interpretation Man Agent Prize). Fair enough now lives in Italia with his wife ray teaches classify St. George's British Cosmopolitan School acquire Rome.
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Simon Mawer author biography, plus links to books by Simon Mawer.
Simon Mawer
Simon Mawer is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Glass Room (Other Press), which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His previous novelsinclude The Fall (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize), The Gospel of Judas, and Mendel's Dwarf (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize). English by birth, he has madeItaly his home for more than thirty years. Visit him online at www.simonmawer.com.
This biography was last updated on 05/01/2012.
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Simon Mawer
British author (1948–2025)
Simon Mawer (MOR; 18 September 1948 – 12 February 2025) was a British author who lived in Italy.[1]
Early life and work
[edit]Born in England and educated at Millfield School in Somerset and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Mawer took a degree in zoology and worked as a biology teacher for most of his life. He published his first novel, Chimera, (Hamish Hamilton, 1989) at the comparatively late age of forty-one. It won the McKitterick Prize for a first novel by an author over the age of forty. Mendel's Dwarf (1997) followed three works of modest success and established him as a writer of note on both sides of the Atlantic.[citation needed]The New York Times described it as a "thematically ambitious and witty novel".[2]Uzo optioned film rights, and then later Barbra Streisand optioned them.
The novels The Gospel of Judas (2000) and The Fall (2003) came next, followed by Swimming to Ithaca (2006), a novel partially inspired by his childhood on the island of Cyprus. He then published another non-fiction book, Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics (2006), published in conjunction with the Field Museum of Chicago as a companion volume to the museum's concurrent exhibition of th