Prizes

Short-listed for James Tait Black Memorial Prize (Fiction) 2007

"Grimly funny, painfully sad, and beautifully written." -- Marcus Eliason - Associated Press
"Poet James Lasdun confirms his career as an important novelist. . . . Macabre but sensationally authentic." -- New York Sun
"A surprising and nuanced novel . . . that skillfully blends the political and the personal." -- The New Republic
"Pitch-perfect. . . . And what finely wrought characters. . . . [Seven Lies’s] complex plot falls into place with the irresistible inevitability of a clockwork’s gears and levers." -- Toronto Globe and Mail

James Lasdun was born in London and lives in Brooklyn. His novels, memoir, poetry, and short story collections have won many awards, and his essays have appeared in the New York Times, the London Review of Books, and the New Yorker, among others.