Author Profile
JUSTIN CARTWRIGHT
Justin Cartwright was born in South Africa and educated in the US and at Oxford University.
His novels include Look at It This Way, Interior, Masai Dreaming,
In Every Face I Meet, which was shortlisted for the Booker Prize,
Leading the Cheers, which won the 1998 Whitbread Novel Award, Half in Love
and the acclaimed White Lightning, which brought in 2002 his fifth shortlisting
for the Whitbread Novel Award.
He has won other awards including a Commonweath Writer's
prize and the South African M-Net award and lives in north London with his wife and,
occasionally, with his two sons.
His last novel, The Promise of Happiness,
was published by Bloomsbury in August 2004. The Promise of Happiness was chosen
as one of Richard and Judy's Book Club's titles for 2005 and was the winner of
the 2005 Hawthornden Prize and the 2005 Sunday Times Fiction Award.
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