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Adam Thirlwell clearly has a lot of charm

Adam Thirlwell clearly has a lot of charm. Literary estates are not generally administered by pussycats, yet Nabokov's heirs have let him publish his translation of the grand master's 'Mademoiselle O' (billed as 'a story never before translated into English', in fact a variant of a well-known work) as part of his own book on style and translation. The effect is of Thirlwell graciously taking Nabokov (who died in 1977, the year before Thirlwell's birth) under his wing.

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Adam Thirlwell FRSL (born 22 August 1978) is a British novelist. He has twice been named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists. In 2015 he received the . Forster Award from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. Thirlwell was educated at the independent Haberdashers' Aske's Boys' School, Elstree. He read English at New College, Oxford, where he got the top first

Perhaps inevitably, Miss Herbert, which marries a meandering analysis of fiction with a new translation of Nabokov's .

Thirlwell treats the work of relative unknowns with almost as much regard as the masterpieces of experimental literature. His erudite, gossipy book is in love with strange connections and stray details: a rumpled bedspread, a long-forgotten gambling debt

Adam Thirlwell was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013.

Adam Thirlwell was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013.

Miss Herbert explores the solutions to this conundrum. Adam Thirlwell was named as one of Granta's Best of Young British Novelists in 2003 and again in 2013. This book demonstrates a new way of reading internationally - complete with maps, illustrations, and helpful diagrams.

Adam Thirlwell was born in 1978. In 2003, he was chosen as one of Granta's Best British Novelists under forty.

Thirlwell refers to the book as a kind of "inside-out novel", in which novelists and their characters are characters, and he's worked up a bunch of kooky McSweeney's-type indexes ("Index of Real Life" etc), to sit at the back. Download the new Independent Premium app. Sharing the full story, not just the headlines. Download now. All this smoke makes it hard to see whom Miss Herbert is aimed at.

Thirlwell, Adam, 1978-. Personal Name: Flaubert, Gustave, 1821-1880. Madame Bovary Translations History and criticism. Personal Name: Herbert, Juliet. Personal Name: Nabokov, Vladimir Vladimirovich, 1899-1977.