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Dan Rhodes (born 1972) is an English writer known for the novel '' Timoleon Vieta Come Home'' (2003), a subversion of the popular '' Lassie Come Home'' movie. He is also the author of ''
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'' (2000), a collection of 101 stories, each consisting of exactly 101 words. In 2010 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award.


Biography

Rhodes grew up in Devon,Writer hopes readers give his new book a big hand
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and graduated in Humanities from the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) in 1994, returning in 1997 to complete an MA in Creative Writing. ''Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love'' was written at this time. He has held a variety of jobs, including stockroom assistant for
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, barman in his parents' pub, and a teacher in
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. He has also worked on a fruit and vegetable farm and is still employed as a postman. Following the publication of his second book, Rhodes's frustration with the publishing industry led him to announce his retirement from writing, though he later said, "I haven't really given up. I'm certainly not making any more grand pronouncements. I was just sick of the business and wanted out. Not just the publishers; everyone around me." Rhodes was included on
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's Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003, to his own bemusement and frustration, partly because of Granta's selection methods ("It's one thing to judge a writer by stuff they've written, but to judge them on stuff they're going to write is lunacy") but also because some of the others on the list failed to respond to his request to sign a joint statement protesting the
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Dan Rhodes: 'Revenge is why I write'
''The Independent'', 7 February 2010.
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In 2014, Rhodes self-published the novel '' When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow'', a "rural farce" about a visit to an obscure English village by a fictional Richard Dawkins, stating that he wanted to get the book out faster than conventional publishing allowed. In 2021, Lightning Books published his novel ''Sour Grapes'', a satire on the literary world set at a rural book festival. Rhodes is married with two children.


Bibliography


Collections

* '' Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories'' (2000) * '' Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love'' (2001) * '' Marry Me'' (2013)


Novels

* '' Timoleon Vieta Come Home'' (2003) * '' The Little White Car'' (under the pen name Danuta de Rhodes) (2004) * ''
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'' (2007) * '' Little Hands Clapping'' (2010) * '' This Is Life'' (2012) * '' When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow'' (2014, self-published limited edition; 2015 formal publication by Aardvark Bureau) * ''Sour Grapes'' (2021)


References


External links


Dan Rhodes Official Site

Dan Rhodes - The SRB Interview


from '' The Telegraph''
Of dogs and men: Interview with Dan Rhodes

Canongate author page
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