![]() ![]() He was also influenced by a series called Penguin Modern European Poets – in particular, Montale, Rilke, Yevtushenko, Pavese, and Zbigniew Herbert. When he was fifteen, he rode his bicycle 150 miles on a "pilgrimage" to Hardy country. His early influences were Thomas Hardy and TS Eliot. While at Christ's Hospital, he began to write poetry. His mother died on a tennis court when he was eight From the age of ten, he attended Christ's Hospital, a charity boarding school that offers children from humble backgrounds a better education. Rupert Thomson was born in Eastbourne, East Sussex, on Novemto Rodney Farquhar-Thomson, a War Disability Pensioner, and Wendy Gausden, a nurse. ![]() He has contributed to the Financial Times, the Guardian, the London Review of Books, Granta and the Independent.īiography and literary career Youth and education In 2010, after several years in Barcelona, he moved back to London. He has lived in many cities around the world, including Athens, Berlin, New York, Sydney, Los Angeles, Amsterdam and Rome. He is the author of thirteen critically acclaimed novels and an award-winning memoir. Rupert Thomson, FRSL (born November 5, 1955) is an English writer. Rupert Thomson at Tolstoy's estate, Yasnaya Polyana, in July 2017 ![]()
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