Lawrence Osborne

Lawrence Osborne

Lawrence Osborne is a British novelist currently residing in Bangkok.

Osborne was educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge^[1] and at Harvard, and has since led a nomadic life, residing for years in France, Italy, Morocco, the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and Istanbul.

He is the author of the novel Ania Malina;^[2] a book about Paris, Paris Dreambook;^[3] the essay collection The Poisoned Embrace;^[4] a controversial book about autism called American Normal;^[5] and three subsequent travel books published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux between 2004 and 2009: a book about wine, The Accidental Connoisseur;^[6] The Naked Tourist;^[7] and an account of expatriate life in Bangkok called Bangkok Days.^[8] His short stories have appeared in many American magazines. His story "Volcano", originally published in Tin House, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2012. His novel The Forgiven was published in 2012 to widespread acclaim. It was selected by The Economist as one of the Best Books of the Year for 2012.^{[9][10][11][12][13][14][15][16][17][18][19][20][21][22][23][24][25][26][27][28][29][30][31][32][33]}

Osborne's next book, The Wet and the Dry, a travelogue about Islam and alcohol, was published in 2013. It was included in the Top 10 Books of 2013 by the New York Times Book Review critic, Dwight Garner.

Osborne has been published widely as a journalist in the United States, most notably in the New York Times Magazine,^[34] The New Yorker,^[35] Gourmet, Salon, Playboy, and Condé Nast Traveler. He has also been an occasional op ed columnist at Forbes.com and is a frequent contributor to Newsweek International, The Daily Beast, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine. His feature for Playboy, "Getting a Drink in Islamabad", won a 2011 Thomas Lowell Award for Travel Journalism.

A novel, The Ballad of a Small Player was published by Hogarth in spring 2014 to considerable critical acclaim, both in the United States and the United Kingdom. The New York Times selected it as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2014. NPR also included it in its Year's Best Books of 2014. Neel Mukherjee picked it as one of his Books of the Year in The New Statesman. In the London Sunday Times, Robert Collins wrote : "A modern Graham Greene.... into this relatively quiet period for British fiction, someone remarkable and unexpected has emerged fully armed with a formidable, masterly grip on the British novel. At precisely the point where most novelists start to show signs of flagging, Osborne has hit his creative, fictional stride...and has arrived as a thrilling, exceptional talent in British fiction's landscape."

His most recent novel,Hunters in the Dark, was published by Hogarth in May 2015.

References

External links

• Official website