Adam Mars-Jones's first book of stories, Lantern Lecture, was published in 1981 and won a Somerset Maugham Award. In 1983 and again in 1993 he was named one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists, despite not having produced a novel at the time.
His Zen status as an acclaimed novelist without a novel was dented by the appearance of The Waters of Thirst, and only suffered further with the appearance of Pilcrow, described by Margaret Drabble as 'one of the most remarkable novels I have read in recent years'.
He regularly reviews for the Observer and the LRB.
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Fiction, Gay men, English literature, Anthology, Gay, LGBT, LGBTQ+, Patients, AIDS (Disease), Contemporary, General, Literary Fiction, Series:John-Cromer, Short Stories, homosexuality, Fiction, general, Fiction, psychological, Homosexuality, Literature, Queer, Short stories, Social life and customs, AIDS, AIDS & HIV, Acquired Immunodeficiency SyndromePlaces
Great Britain, Bath, Box Hill (Surrey - England), Cambridge (England), Japan, Pristina (Kosovo), Reading, TaplowPeople
John Cromer, Adam Mars-Jones, Barry Ashton, Donald Neilson, Gilbert O'Sullivan, Ian Fleming, Ian McEwan, Jacqueline Bisset, Lesley Whittle, Martin Amis, Nancy Astor, Queen Elizabeth II, William Mars-Jones, Yasujirō Ozu (1903-1963)ID Numbers
- OLID: OL719613A
- Amazon ID: B001KE65T0
- GoodReads: 210188
- ISNI: 0000000115159848
- Integrated Authority File (GND): 143500295
- IMDb: nm11272776
- Library of Congress Names: n81052200
- VIAF: 117830089
- Wikidata: Q4679447
- Inventaire.io: wd:Q4679447
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- Mars-Jones, Adam, 1954-
- Mars-Jones, Adam
- Jones, Adam Mars-
- Adam Mars Jones
- Adam Mars-Jones (British writer)
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