Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith

Smith at the 2013 Frankfurt Book Fair
Born 1979 (age 36–37)[1]
South London, England[2]
Occupation Novelist
Genre Fiction
Partner Ben Stephenson

Tom Rob Smith (born 1979[3]) is an English writer.

Early life and education

The son of a Swedish mother and an English father, both antique dealers, Smith was born and raised in South London.[4] Following his graduation from St John's College, Cambridge, in 2001, he received the Harper Wood Studentship for English Poetry and Literature and continued his Creative Writing studies for a year at Parvin University, in Italy.[5]

Career

After completing his studies, Smith worked as a writer and a script editor, including a stint with the BBC story-lining Cambodia's first soap opera in Phnom Penh.[6]

His first novel, Child 44, published in early 2008, was inspired by the true-life case of Andrei Chikatilo, who committed a series of child murders in Soviet Russia. It was awarded the 2008 Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for best thriller of the year by the Crime Writers' Association, named on the long list for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, and nominated for the 2008 Costa First Novel Award (former Whitbread). In July, 2009, he won the Waverton Good Read Award for first novels and the Galaxy Book Award for Best Newcomer with Child 44. It has been translated into 36 languages and in January, 2011, Richard Madeley and Judy Finnegan listed it in their Book Club 100 Books of the decade.[7] In 2007, Ridley Scott optioned the film rights.[8] Fox 2000 bought the project, and a film based on the novel was announced in 2009, with Ridley Scott originally attached as both director and producer.[9] In actuality, Child 44 (2015) was produced by Scott and his longtime production collaborator Michael Costigan, via Scott Free Productions, and directed by Daniel Espinosa [Safe House (2012)]. Child 44 stars Gary Oldman, Tom Hardy, Noomi Rapace, Charles Dance, and Joel Kinnaman.[10]

Smith's sequel to Child 44, The Secret Speech, was published in April, 2009, and the final novel in the trilogy, Agent 6, was published in July 2011.[11] Smith's fourth book, a standalone novel entitled The Farm, was published in February 2014.[12]

Smith also wrote a drama television series, London Spy, which was first broadcast on BBC Two in November 2015.

Personal life

Smith lives with his partner Ben Stephenson, the former Controller of BBC Drama Commissioning.[13]

Novels

Scripts

See also

References

  1. ↑ "Tom Rob Smith Biography". BookBrowse. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  2. ↑ "Tom Rob Smith Biography". BookBrowse. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  3. ↑ "Tom Rob Smith Biography". BookBrowse. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  4. ↑ "Tom Rob Smith Biography". BookBrowse. Retrieved June 12, 2016.
  5. ↑ "Tom Rob Smith's official biography".
  6. ↑ Gurrtidge, Peter (2 March 2008). "In pursuit of a Russian Ripper: Tom Rob Smith tells how his tale of a Russian mass murderer sparked a furious bidding war". The Observer. London.
  7. ↑ "Tom Rob Smith Child 44 Foreign and Awards".
  8. ↑ Film News. "Ridley Scott Adopts Child 44". Time Out.
  9. ↑ "Child 44 Movie". Themovieinsider.com. 2007-05-07. Retrieved 2012-02-27.
  10. ↑ http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1014763/
  11. ↑ "Agent 6 Synopsis". curtisbrown.co.uk.
  12. ↑ Smith, Tom Rob (2014). "The Farm". UK: Curtis Brown.
  13. ↑ Midgley, Neil (8 April 2009). "Ben Stephenson Interview". London: The Telegraph.

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External links

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