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James Lasdun (born 1958 in London) is a writer and academic who currently lives in upstate New York. He is the son of the British Architect Sir Denys Lasdun.
Career
Writing
He has written two novels, The Horned Man in 2002 and Seven Lies, which was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for fiction. He has published three collections of short stories, including The Siege and other stories, whose title story was filmed by Bernardo Bertolucci as Besieged. He has also published a number of books of poetry, including "Woman Police Officer in Elevator" and "Landscape with Chainsaw" [1], which was published in 2001 and was shorlisted for the Forward Prize for poetry.
Teaching
James Lasdun teaches poetry and fiction writing at Princeton University, New York University and Columbia University. [2]
Honors
Among his many honours, he is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, and the 1999 winner of the London Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition. [3] In May 2006 he won the inaugural UK National Short Story Prize [4] for his story An Anxious Man, beating competition from other acclaimed story writers including William Trevor, Rose Tremain and Michel Faber, and taking a prize of £15,000. Chair of the judges, Francine Stock, said "What we kept coming back to however was the visceral resonance of the winning story. We chose the story that lingered most but both the winner and the runner up extended the possibilities of what you can do with the short story." [5]
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