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He now lives in Italy with his wife and teaches at St. George's British International School in Rome.


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Series

Books:

Trapeze, May 2012
Paperback / e-Book
The Glass Room, October 2009
Paperback

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His previous novels include The Fall (winner of the Boardman Tasker Prize), The Gospel of Judas, and Mendel's Dwarf (long-listed for the Man Booker Prize).

THE GOSPEL OF JUDAS, THE FALL (winner of the 2003 Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature) and SWIMMING TO ITHACA followed, as well as THE GLASS ROOM, his 10th book and eighth novel, which was short-listed for the Booker Prize.

simon mawer author biography

His first novel, CHIMERA, won the McKitterick Prize for first novels in 1989.

Simon Mawer

Simon Mawer was born in 1948 in England. TRAPEZE was published in 2012 and its follow-up, TIGHTROPE, in 2015.

Books by Simon Mawer

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Tightrope

by Simon Mawer- Fiction, Historical Fiction, Historical Thriller, Suspense, Thriller

Trapeze

by Simon Mawer- Fiction, Historical Fiction

Simon Mawer


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Simon Mawer was born in England and spent his childhood there, in Cyprus, and in Malta.

MENDEL'S DWARF (1997), his first book to be published in the U.S., was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize and was a New York Times Book to Remember for 1998.