“With
a novel, there is no hurrying it. You're constantly walking into the unknown.”
– Tobias Hill
A native of North London and the son
of a journalist and graphic designer, Hill is a prizewinning and critically
acclaimed author of five novels, four volumes of poetry, a short story
collection and a children's book. He is
celebrating his 46th birthday today.
Amongst contemporary British authors, Hill is
unusual in achieving critical recognition as a poet, novelist and writer of
short stories. Over the past 10 years, he
has been named one of the “Best young
writers in Britain” by the London Times Literary Supplement and
selected as one of the country's “Next Generation” poets. His novels have been
published worldwide. Secrecy, revelation
and obsession are recurrent themes in Hill's novels, which have all been best sellers. His short stories have won the prestigious International PEN/Macmillan
Silver Pen Award. And,
his poetry has been called “luminous” and “unforgettable.”
When asked what he likes best in his writing
life, he said probably poetry because it provides him the biggest challenge.
“At school, I was never given a sense that
poetry was something flowery or light. It's a complex and controlled way of
using language,” he said. “Rhythms and
the music of it are very important. But the difficulty is that poetry makes
some kind of claim of honesty.”
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