Max Porter (novelist)
Alex Christofi comment 13/06/2019: I have expanded upon reception and have highlighted three reliable references in the Talk page.
Max Porter is a British novelist. He has published two novels, Grief is the Thing with Feathers and Lanny.[1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8]
His first novel was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award[9] and the Goldsmiths Prize[10], won the Sunday Times / PFD Young Writer of the Year 2016[11][12][13] and the Dylan Thomas Prize[14][15][16] and was subsequently adapted for the stage, directed by Enda Walsh and starring Cillian Murphy.[17][18][19] The book was published in 27 territories.[20]
Lanny was the subject of a dramatic reading at the Southbank Centre in London performed by Kenneth Cranham, Stephen Mangan and Lydia Wilson.[21] The book is set to be adapted for screen starring Rachel Weisz.[22][23]
Life[edit]
Porter was born in High Wycombe in 1981, went to the local state grammar and studied history of art up to MA level at the Courtauld Institute of Art in London.[24] He became a bookseller and then an editor at Granta.[25] In a 2016 interview with the Times Literary Supplement he claimed to be 'a good freestyle rapper'.[26] He is married with three children, but has been described in interviews as 'guarded about his personal life'.[27]
In 2019, he was named as a guest curator for the Cheltenham Literary Festival.[28]
Published works[edit]
- Grief is the Thing with Feathers (2015)
- Lanny (2019)
Reception[edit]
The critical reception for both novels has been positive.
The New York Times wrote that Porter 'has an excellent ear for the flexibility of language and tone, juxtaposing colloquialisms against poetic images and metaphors'.[29] In 2016, The Times noted that 'reviewers had struggled to categorise' Grief is the Thing with Feathers,[30] and the Telegraph wrote that it 'brought him a level of success you might have thought unlikely given what it was: a jagged, elliptical prose poem that is both homage to Ted Hughes’s Crow sequence and a brutally beautiful depiction of two boys and their dad struggling after the death of their mother', noting that it won several awards and has sold 155,000 copies.[31] Adam Mars-Jones wrote in the London Review of Books that the book 'qualifies as a novel by the familiar logic of its not fitting any other category', calling it 'compact and splendid'.[32]
Lanny was endorsed by novelists Mark Haddon, Kamila Shamsie and Maggie O'Farrell and the poet Ocean Vuong. The Sunday Times wrote that it was a 'remarkable feat of literary virtuosity', but cautioning that 'very occasionally, a false note is struck'.[33]
- ↑ Smith-Laing, Tim (11 March 2019). "Lanny by Max Porter review: a startling, moving follow-up to Grief is the Thing with Feathers". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.telegraph.co.uk.
- ↑ Kemp, Review by Peter. "Review: Lanny by Max Porter — this novel is a remarkable feat of literary virtuosity". www.thetimes.co.uk. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ Adams, Tim (5 March 2019). "Lanny by Max Porter review – genuine raw emotional edge". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "Subscribe to read". Financial Times. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "Lanny by Max Porter - review". Evening Standard. 28 February 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019. zero width space character in
|title=at position 6 (help) - ↑ "Love, death and loss in a small village – Lanny reviewed". The Spectator. 2 March 2019. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "Book review: Lanny, by Max Porter". www.scotsman.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "Book review: Lanny, by Max Porter". HeraldScotland. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ Cook, Diane; Obioma, Chigozie; Pomerantsev, Peter; Porter, Max; McMillan, Andrew; Taylor, Sara (13 November 2015). "Guardian first book award shortlist 2015". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "The Goldsmiths Prize 2015 shortlist". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "Porter named Young Writer of the Year". 8 December 2016. Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ team, Code8. "Max Porter". youngwriteraward.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "Max Porter scoops Young Writer of the Year award - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ Flood, Alison (14 May 2016). "Dylan Thomas award goes to Max Porter's 'extraordinary feat'". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "Max Porter wins £30,000 Dylan Thomas Prize - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "Dylan Thomas prize shortlist announced". 28 March 2017. Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.bbc.co.uk.
- ↑ Crawley, Peter. "Enda Walsh: Grief is the Thing with Feathers floored me". The Irish Times. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "Cillian Murphy to star in Grief is the Thing With Feathers in London". Evening Standard. 11 October 2018. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ Meany, Helen (22 March 2018). "Grief is the Thing With Feathers review – Cillian Murphy takes wing". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "Max Porter's 'devastating' second novel to Faber - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "126576 Max Porter: Lanny 2019". Southbank Centre. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "Weisz to star in film adaptation of Porter's Lanny - The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ Clarke, Stewart; Clarke, Stewart (7 March 2019). "Rachel Weisz Set to Produce, Star in 'Lanny' Adaptation". variety.com. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ Crown, Sarah (12 September 2015). "Max Porter: 'The experience of the boys in the novel is based on my dad dying when I was six'". Retrieved 20 April 2019 – via www.theguardian.com.
- ↑ "BBC Radio 4 - Books and Authors, Max Porter, Folk resurgence in literature, Angie Thomas on Hip Hop". BBC. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ "The TLS Interview: Twenty Questions with Max Porter". TheTLS. Retrieved 20 April 2019.
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/books-interview-max-porter-the-sunday-times-peters-fraser-and-dunlop-young-writer-of-the-year-rhcbktwbj
- ↑ http://www.bookbrunch.co.uk/page/article-detail/?sf1=cms_pagename&st1=cheltenham-festival-announces--seven-at-seventy-celebrations&utm_source=daily-newsletter&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=daily-newsletter
- ↑ https://www.nytimes.com/2016/07/03/books/review/grief-is-the-thing-with-feathers-by-max-porter.html
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/books-interview-max-porter-the-sunday-times-peters-fraser-and-dunlop-young-writer-of-the-year-rhcbktwbj
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/books-interview-max-porter-the-sunday-times-peters-fraser-and-dunlop-young-writer-of-the-year-rhcbktwbj
- ↑ https://www.lrb.co.uk/v38/n02/adam-mars-jones/chop-chop-chop
- ↑ https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/review-lanny-by-max-porter-this-novel-is-a-remarkable-feat-of-literary-virtuosity-8l8v0fl0h
References[edit]
Murphy, Malachy (November 09, 2023). "Cillian Murphy's son Malachy Murphy". Infootch. Shubham kansal. Retrieved 2 January 2024. Check date values in: |date= (help)
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