Sam North
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{{Infobox person
| name = Sam North
| birth_date = {{Birth date and age|1960|8|30|df=y}}
| birth_place = Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom
| occupation = Novelist, screenwriter, lecturer
| nationality = British
| awards = Somerset Maugham Prize
}}
Sam North (born 30 August 1960) is a British novelist, screenwriter, and lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.{{cite web |title=University of Exeter |url=https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/snorth/}}
Early life
North was born in Bury St Edmunds, Suffolk, United Kingdom. He left school at 16 and worked as a groom, a motorcycle messenger, a runner on film sets, and on building sites.{{cite web |title=University of Exeter |url=https://creativewriting.exeter.ac.uk/people/staff/samnorth/}}
Career
North's first novel, The Automatic Man, won the Somerset Maugham Prize. His 2004 novel, The Unnumbered, was longlisted for the Booker Prize.{{cite web |title=Man Booker Prize |date=5 April 2004 |url=https://thebookerprizes.com/the-booker-library/books/the-unnumbered}} North has written two books about writing, Five Analogies for Fiction Writing and The Instinctive Screenplay. He works as a lecturer in creative writing at the University of Exeter.{{cite web |title=Professor Sam North |url=https://english.exeter.ac.uk/staff/snorth/}}
Works
- The Automatic Man (1989)
- The Unnumbered (2004)
- Five Analogies for Fiction Writing (2014)
- The Instinctive Screenplay (2017)
References
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External links
- [https://www.amazon.co.uk/Sam-North/e/B001JS5ZNO/ref=dp_byline_cont_book_1 Sam North on Amazon]
- [https://humanities.exeter.ac.uk/english/staff/north/ Sam North at the University of Exeter]
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Category:Academics of the University of Exeter