Biographie de Matthew Kneale
Matthew Kneale was born in London in 1960, the son of two writers, and studied modern history at Oxford. His first novel, Mr Foreigner, set in Japan, won a Somerset Maugham Award. Sweet Thames, which looked at the London of the 1840s, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. His text novel, English Passengers, won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. He is married with two children.