Chris Power is a British writer and literary critic for ''

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''. He was born in 1975 and grew up in Farnborough, Hampshire. He studied English and American literature at

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, graduating in 1998. He has worked as an advertising copywriter and creative director. Power wrote a regular column for ''The Guardian'' about the

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as a literary form between 2007 and 2020

He has also presented the

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programme ''Open Book''. He has cited

Roberto Bolaño Roberto Bolaño Ávalos (; 28 April 1953 – 15 July 2003) was a Chilean novelist, short-story writer, poet and essayist. In 1999, Bolaño won the Rómulo Gallegos Prize for his novel ''Los detectives salvajes'' ('' The Savage Detectives ...

and

Denis Johnson Denis Hale Johnson (July 1, 1949 – May 24, 2017) was an American novelist, short-story writer, and poet. He is perhaps best known for his debut short story collection, '' Jesus' Son'' (1992). His most successful novel, ''Tree of Smoke'' (2007) ...

as literary influences. Power's first book of short stories, ''Mothers: Stories'', was published in 2018 in Britain and in 2019 in the United States. His first novel, ''A Lonely Man'', was published in April 2021. Power is married with two daughters and lives in London.

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