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Matthew Hollis (born 1971) is an
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author, editor, professor, and
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, currently living in
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Career and background

He was born in
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, the son of politician Patricia Hollis and academic Martin Hollis. He has studied at the universities of Edinburgh and York. He presently lives in
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, writing as well as serving as a tutor for the London Poetry School and working as an editor at
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. He is a member of the international educational and cultural enhancement organisation the
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, taking part in the Arts Council's 'First Lines' program in 2001. Hollis has published a variety of written works. After its shortlisting for the Forward Prize for Best First Collection, his first full-length collection ''Ground Water'' (
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, 2004) was shortlisted for the Guardian First Book Award (the first time for a poetry book) and for the Whitbread Poetry Award; ''Ground Water'' was also a Poetry Book Society Recommendation. Hollis is perhaps best known for the 2011 non-fiction book '' Now All Roads Lead to France'', a critically acclaimed (praise appearing in ''
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'', and others) biography of seminal English poet Edward Thomas. The work won the 2011 H. W. Fisher Best First Biography Prize as well as the 2011 Costa Book Award for 'Best Biography'. The judges for the latter commented: "Dramatic and engrossing. A brilliant biography that moved us all." His most recent work is Waste Land: A Biography of a Poem published on 10/13/22 by
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.


See also

*'' Now All Roads Lead to France'' *
Patricia Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham Patricia Lesley Hollis, Baroness Hollis of Heigham, PC, DL (née Wells; 24 May 1941 – 13 October 2018) was an historian and Labour member of the House of Lords of the United Kingdom. Biography Early life and education Hollis was educated at ...
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Matthew Hollis reads from ''Now All Roads Lead to France'' - video
* 1971 births Living people Alumni of the University of Edinburgh English male poets {{UK-writer-stub