![]() The work that made him famous is his erotic and somewhat fantastical novel The White Hotel (1981), the story of a woman undergoing psychoanalysis, which has proved very popular in continental Europe and the United States. He published poetry and some prose in the British science fiction magazine New Worlds (from 1968). He lived and worked in Australia and the United States before returning to his native Cornwall. Thomas is a Cornish novelist, poet, and translator.īorn in Redruth, Cornwall, UK, he attended Trewirgie Primary School and Redruth Grammar School before graduating with First Class Honours in English from New College, Oxford in 1959. ( From the publisher.)ĭonald Michael Thomas, known as D. ![]() He has also published memoirs, several volumes of poetry and translations of Pushkin and Anna Akhmatova. His novels include The Flute-Player, Ararat, Swallow, Sphinx, Summit, Flying into Love and Eating Pavlova. ![]() After reading English at New College, Oxford, he became a teacher until he became a full-time writer. Awards-PEN-Silver Pen Award Cheltenham Prizeĭ.M. ![]() Winner, PEN-Silver Pen Award and Cheltenham Prizeīy turns a dream of electrifying eroticism recounted by a young woman to her analyst, Sigmund Freud, and a horrifying yet calmly unsensational narrative of the Holocaust, The White Hotel is now recognized as a modern classic that reconciles the nightmarish with the transcendent. ![]()
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