John Lanchester (1962 - ) is a Britishwriter and novelist. He is the author of three novels: The Debt to Pleasure (1996), Mr Phillips (2000) and Fragrant Harbour (2002). His journalism has appeared in Granta, The Observer, The Guardian, the Daily Telegraph, the London Review of Books and The New Yorker. 1962 (MCMLXII) was a common year starting on Monday (link will take you to calendar). ... The term writer can apply to anyone who creates a written work, but the word more usually designates those who write creatively or professionally, or those who have written in many different forms. ... A novel is an extended work of written, narrative, prose fiction, usually in story form; the writer of a novel is a novelist. ... 1996 (MCMXCVI) is a leap year starting on Monday of the Gregorian calendar, and was designated the International Year for the Eradication of Poverty. ... This article is about the year 2000. ... 2002 (MMII) was a common year starting on Tuesday of the Gregorian calendar. ... Granta 37, published September 1991 Granta is a literary magazine which publishes new writing — fiction, personal history, reportage and investigative journalism — four times a year. ... Wikipedia does not yet have an article with this exact name. ... The Guardian is a British newspaper owned by the Guardian Media Group. ... This article deals with The Daily Telegraph in Britain, see The Daily Telegraph (Australia) for the Australian publication The Daily Telegraph is a British broadsheet newspaper founded in 1855. ... The London Review of Books (or LRB) is a twice-monthly British literary magazine. ... The New Yorkers first cover, which is reprinted most years on the magazines anniversary. ...
Lanchester was immediately recognised as a great talent with the appearance of The Debt to Pleasure, which won him the Whitbread First Novel award in 1996.
Hence the feelings of complicit elation Lanchester is able to foment in his readers as he approaches the end of The Debt to Pleasure, so different from the flatness of the close of Mr Phillips (whose ending should, after all, properly be optimistic).
With his first two novels, JohnLanchester established himself as a writer whose focus on one man's interior landscape was, in each case, a tour de force.
As a child, Lanchester was aware of his grandmother's visits to the cemetery, honoring the graves of people who died in the battle for Hong Kong or during their incarceration afterwards.
Lanchester's voice is clearly a marvel of ingenuity, wit and narrative verve.
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