Dan Rhodes

Dan Rhodes (born 1972) is an English writer, possibly best known for the novel '' Timoleon Vieta Come Home'' (2003), a subversion of the popular ''Lassie Come Home'' movie. He is also the author of ''Anthropology'' (2000), a collection of 101 stories, each consisting of exactly 101 words. In 2010 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award.

Biography

Rhodes grew up in Devon,Writer hopes readers give his new book a big hand
, thisisderbyshire.co.uk. and graduated in Humanities from the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) in 1994, returning in 1997 to complete an MA in Creative Writing. ''Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love'' was written at this time. He has held a variety of jobs, including stockroom assistant for Waterstone's, barman in his parents' pub, and a teacher in Ho Chi Minh City. He has also worked on a fruit and vegetable farm and is still employed as a postman.

Following the publication of his second book, Rhodes's frustration with the publishing industry led him to announce his retirement from writing, though he later said, "I haven't really given up. I'm certainly not making any more grand pronouncements. I was just sick of the business and wanted out. Not just the publishers; everyone around me."

Rhodes was included on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003, to his own bemusement and frustration, partly because of Granta's selection methods ("It's one thing to judge a writer by stuff they've written, but to judge them on stuff they're going to write is lunacy") but also because some of the others on the list failed to respond to his request to sign a joint statement protesting the Iraq War.Guest, Katy
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''The Independent'', 7 February 2010.Gallix, Andrew

3ammagazine.com, July 2003.

In 2014, Rhodes self-published the novel '' When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow'', a "rural farce" about a visit to an obscure English village by a fictional Richard Dawkins, stating that he wanted to get the book out faster than conventional publishing allowed. Traditional publishers were loath to publish the novel for fear of legal action from Professor Richard Dawkins, who is parodied in it. Rhodes appealed repeatedly to Dawkins, a defender of satire and free speech, for permission to "publish and be damned" but received no response. The novel was republished by Aardvark Bureau in October 2015.

In 2021, Lightning Books published his novel ''Sour Grapes'', a satire on the literary world set at a rural book festival.

Rhodes is married with two children.

Bibliography

Collections

* '' Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories'' (2000)
* '' Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love'' (2001)
* '' Marry Me'' (2013)

Novels

* '' Timoleon Vieta Come Home'' (2003)
* '' The Little White Car'' (under the pen name Danuta de Rhodes) (2004)
* ''Gold'' (2007)
* ''Little Hands Clapping'' (2010)
* '' This Is Life'' (2012)
* '' When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow'' (2014, self-published limited edition; 2015 formal publication by Aardvark Bureau)
* ''Sour Grapes'' (2021)

References

External links

Dan Rhodes Official Site

Dan Rhodes - The SRB Interview


from ''The Telegraph''

Of dogs and men: Interview with Dan Rhodes

Canongate author page
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1972 births
21st-century British novelists
Alumni of the University of Glamorgan
Living people
People from Buxton
Writers from Devon
British male novelists
21st-century British male writers
21st-century pseudonymous writers