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Max Porter (born 1981) is an English writer, formerly a bookseller and editor, best known for his debut novel Grief is the Thing with Feathers.
‘Max Porter is one of my favourite writers in the world. Why? Because he’s always asking the most important questions and then finding answers -through innovative structures and that inimitable voice - of answering those questions soulfully, with his full attention, in ways that make the world seem stranger and more dear (or more dear ...
Max Porter’s first novel, Grief Is the Thing with Feathers won the Sunday Times/Peter, Fraser + Dunlop Young Writer of the Year, the International Dylan Thomas Prize, the Europese Literatuurprijs and the BAMB Readers’ Award and was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and the Goldsmiths Prize.
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Sep 17, 2015 · In this extraordinary debut - part novella, part polyphonic fable, part essay on grief, Max Porter's compassion and bravura style combine to dazzling effect. Full of unexpected humour and profound emotional truth, Grief is the Thing with Feathers marks the arrival of a thrilling new talent.
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Mar 5, 2019 · Max Porter. 4.06. 27,109 ratings3,650 reviews. Goodreads Choice Award. Nominee for Best Fiction (2019) The Sunday Times Top Ten Bestseller and Booker Prize Longlisted novel Lanny by the author of Grief Is the Thing with Feathers. There’s a village sixty miles outside London.
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Apr 13, 2023 · Max Porter on ‘Shy’: “I Wrote It From a Position of Absolute Horror at the Political Present” The Grief Is the Thing with Feathers author discusses his latest novel, a moving and murky insight...
A stormy and moving story about Shy, an angry young man in a world of barbed wire, in a world of bruises. In language that shimmers, rages and churns, Max Porter has once again written an unparalleled masterpiece. Marieke Lucas Rijneveld. Max Porter has a way of writing unlike anyone else.
