Simon Mawer is the author of the New York Times best-selling novel The Glass Room (Other Press), which was short-listed for the Man Booker Prize. His previous novels include The Fall (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize), The Gospel of Judas, and Mendel's Dwarf (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize). English by birth, he has made Italy his home for more than thirty years. Visit him online at www.simonmawer.com.
This biography was last updated on 05/01/2012.
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