Adam Mars-Jones

Adam Mars-Jones' first collection of stories, Lantern Lecture , won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982, and he appeared on Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists lists in 1983 and 1993. His debut novel, The Waters of Thirst , was published in 1993 by Faber & Faber. It was followed by Pilcrow (2008) and Cedilla (2011), which form the first two parts of a semi-infinite novel series. His essay Noriko Smiling (Notting Hill Editions, 2011) is a book-length study of a classic of Japanese cinema,...See more

Adam Mars-Jones' first collection of stories, Lantern Lecture , won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1982, and he appeared on Granta 's Best of Young British Novelists lists in 1983 and 1993. His debut novel, The Waters of Thirst , was published in 1993 by Faber & Faber. It was followed by Pilcrow (2008) and Cedilla (2011), which form the first two parts of a semi-infinite novel series. His essay Noriko Smiling (Notting Hill Editions, 2011) is a book-length study of a classic of Japanese cinema, Yasujiro Ozu's Late Spring . His memoir Kid Gloves was published by Particular Books in 2015. He writes book reviews for the LRB and film reviews for the TLS . See less