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Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell was born in London in 1978. He is the author of the novels Politics and The Escape, and Kapow!, a novella, as well as a book of international novels, which won a Somerset Maugham award. His work has been translated into 30 languages.

Adam Thirlwell on Granta.com

In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Podcast: Adam Thirlwell

Yuka Igarashi & Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell speaks to Granta’s Yuka Igarashi about sex, history, translation, using tempo in novels and how his writing has evolved over the past decade.

FictionFiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Jeffrey Eugenides on Adam Thirlwell

Jeffrey Eugenides & Adam Thirlwell

We continue an online series of former Best of Young Novelists introducing writers from the...

FictionFiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Slow Motion

Adam Thirlwell

[Edison Lo wakes up] When I woke I was looking upside down at a line...

Essays & MemoirEssays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Essays & Memoir | The Online Edition

Adam Thirlwell on Michel Laub

Adam Thirlwell & Michel Laub

Best of Young Brazilian Novelist Michel Laub discusses his story ‘Animals’ – described by Adam...

In ConversationIn Conversation | The Online Edition

In Conversation | The Online Edition

Interview: Adam Thirlwell

Adam Thirlwell

Photos by David Sykes and Visual Editions. Adam Thirlwell was selected as one of Granta’s...

FictionFiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

Lists, lists, lists…

Adam Thirlwell

This week on the Granta blog, ahead of the launch of Granta’s first ever Best...

FictionFiction | The Online Edition

Fiction | The Online Edition

The Cyrillic Alphabet

Adam Thirlwell

‘Olga was noble. She was Amazonian. She felt exhausted and humiliated, but she also had force.’