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Simon Mawer
British author (born 1948)
Simon Mawer (MOR; born 1948[1]) is a British author who lives in Italy.
Swimming to Ithaca includes poems supposedly written by one of the characters in the novel.
Life and work
Born in England and educated at Millfield School in Somerset and at Brasenose College, Oxford, Mawer took a degree in Zoology and has worked as a biology teacher for most of his life. He published his first novel, Chimera, (Hamish Hamilton, 1989) at the comparatively late age of forty-one.
It won the McKitterick Prize for a first novel by an author over the age of forty. Mendel's Dwarf (1997) followed three works of modest success and established him as a writer of note on both sides of the Atlantic.[citation needed]The New York Times described it as a "thematically ambitious and witty novel".[2]Uzo optioned film rights, and then later Barbra Streisand optioned them.
The novels The Gospel of Judas (2000) and The Fall (2003) came next, followed by Swimming to Ithaca (2006), a novel partially inspired