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Daren King: London’s premier writer, magician and humourist |
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My plan for world domination is almost complete.
Mouse Noses on Toast, my first children’s novel, won the 6-8 age category in the Nestle Children’s Book Prize. Peter the Penguin Pioneer, my third children’s novel, has been shortlisted for the Blue Peter Book Awards. My debut adult novel, Boxy an Star, was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award and longlisted for the Booker Prize. My fiction has been translated into German, Italian, Russian and, um, American. Aside from my own writing projects, I work for the creative writing website Writer’s Workshop. I am also Editor at a new publishing house, 3:AM Press. |
I write my novels in the pub on the back of a beermat. I have recently completed work on my fifth adult novel, and am planning a crime novel. Next year: the world. You may like to know that I am now back in London after two fantastic years in Dublin. Email me, say hello, and tell me how you intend to thwart my plans. |
“It is difficult to sum up King’s dazzlingly
weird, filthy-naive writing style. His first novel, Boxy an Star,
was published in 1999 to gasps of astonishment. Critics described
it as ‘exceptional’, ‘maverick’, ‘scorchingly poetic’, ‘my very favourite
work of fiction this year’ and ‘like some delirious encounter between
PG Wodehouse and William S Burroughs’.” Katy Guest, The Independent |
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