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Steven Hall Novelist United Kingdom
Steven Hall was born in Manchester, UK in 1975. He studied Art at Sheffield Hallam University and during that time he was fairly convinced he would become an artist. He was as surprised as everyone else when he discovered that his work was evolving towards books and fiction, although his writing does still contain many visual elements.
Steven’s short stories have been published in New Writing 13 and The Best of 3AM Magazine. His first novel, The Raw Shark Texts has been published in thirty-three countries and almost as many languages. The book been called a genre-founding work of fiction by the New York Times and “a damnable weird, beguiling bastard of a novel” by Bookslut. The Raw Shark Texts is currently being developed for cinema by Blueprint Pictures in association with FilmFour and Pathe. There is a short film featuring Tilda Swinton reading from The Raw Shark Texts.
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