Gerard Woodward

Gerard Woodward

Gerard Woodward (born 1961) is an award-winning British novelist and poet. He was born in London and educated at Falmouth School of Art and the London School of Economics, where he studied Social Anthropology. His first collection of poetry, "Householder", was published in 1991 and won the Somerset Maugham Award. His novels have been shortlisted for both the Booker and Whitbread Awards. He teaches creative writing at Bath Spa University.

Bibliography

Poetry

*"The Unwriter & Other Poems" (1989)
*"Householder" (1991), ISBN 0-7011-3758-4
*"After the Deafening" (1994), ISBN 0-7011-6271-6
*"Island to Island" (1999), ISBN 0-7011-6869-2
*"We Were Pedestrians" (2005), ISBN 0-7011-7887-6

Fiction

*"August" (2001), ISBN 0-7011-7111-1, shortlisted for the 2001 Whitbread Book Awards
*"I'll Go to Bed at Noon" (2004), ISBN 0-7011-7118-9, shortlisted for the 2004 Man Booker Prize
*"A Curious Earth" (2007)


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