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'Simon Mawer' (born 1948, England) is a British author. He currently lives in Italy.
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 thirty-nine. It won the McKitterick Prize for first novels. ''Mendel's Dwarf'' followed three works of modest success and established him as a writer of note on both sides of the Atlantic. The New York Times judged it one of the "books to remember" of 1998. ''The Gospel of Judas'' and ''The Fall'' followed, ''The Fall'' winning the 2003 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Recently he has published ''Swimming to Ithaca'', a novel partialy inspired by his childhood on the island of Cyprus, and, in a foray into the field of non-fiction, ''Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics''. The latter book was published in conjunction with the Field Museum of Chicago as a companion volume to the museum's current exhibition of the same name.
Mawer has lived in Italy since 1977. He is married and has two children.
★ ''Chimera'' (1989)
★ ''A Place in Italy'' (1992)
★ ''The Bitter Cross'' (1992)
★ ''A Jealous God'' (1996)
★ ''Mendel's Dwarf'' (1997)
★ ''The Gospel of Judas'' (2000)
★ ''The Fall'' (2003)
★ ''Swimming to Ithaca'' (2006)
★ '' (2006)
★ Official site
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 thirty-nine. It won the McKitterick Prize for first novels. ''Mendel's Dwarf'' followed three works of modest success and established him as a writer of note on both sides of the Atlantic. The New York Times judged it one of the "books to remember" of 1998. ''The Gospel of Judas'' and ''The Fall'' followed, ''The Fall'' winning the 2003 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature. Recently he has published ''Swimming to Ithaca'', a novel partialy inspired by his childhood on the island of Cyprus, and, in a foray into the field of non-fiction, ''Gregor Mendel: Planting the Seeds of Genetics''. The latter book was published in conjunction with the Field Museum of Chicago as a companion volume to the museum's current exhibition of the same name.
| Contents |
| Personal life |
| Bibliography |
| External links |
Personal life
Mawer has lived in Italy since 1977. He is married and has two children.
Bibliography
★ ''Chimera'' (1989)
★ ''A Place in Italy'' (1992)
★ ''The Bitter Cross'' (1992)
★ ''A Jealous God'' (1996)
★ ''Mendel's Dwarf'' (1997)
★ ''The Gospel of Judas'' (2000)
★ ''The Fall'' (2003)
★ ''Swimming to Ithaca'' (2006)
★ '' (2006)
External links
★ Official site
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