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James Meek was born on 1962 in London, United Kingdom, is a British novelist and journalist. Discover James Meek's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 62 years old?
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Timeline
James Meek (born 1962) is a British novelist and journalist, author of The People's Act of Love.
He was born in London, England, and grew up in Dundee, Scotland.
Meek attended school at Grove Academy in Broughty Ferry, Dundee, and studied at Edinburgh University.
His first short stories were published in the New Edinburgh Review and he collaborated with Duncan McLean on a play, Faculty of Rats, which starred Angus Macfadyen.
After a few years in England Meek returned to Edinburgh in 1988, where he worked for The Scotsman.
The following year, his first novel, McFarlane Boils the Sea, was published.
In 1990 he helped McLean set up the garage publishing house Clocktower Press.
In the 1990s and early 2000s, Meek was associated with the emerging experimental realist school of Scottish writers, including Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner, appearing with them on the pages of the Kevin Williamson-edited short story collection Children of Albion Rovers.
His fiction during this time – two novels and two books of short stories – was characterised by surrealism and absurdism and influenced by writers such as Franz Kafka and James Kelman.
Meek has described it as "magical dirty realism".
In 1991, Meek moved to Kiev and in 1994 to Moscow.
He joined the staff of The Guardian, becoming its Moscow bureau chief.
In 1999, he moved to London.
Newsweek magazine named it one of the top ten works of fiction of the 2000s.
Johnny Depp optioned the book for a film adaptation.
In 2003 he crossed the border from Kuwait into Iraq, following the invading American armies to Baghdad in a small group of journalists that included Dexter Filkins.
He left the Guardian in 2005.
He is the author of five novels, two books of short stories and a book of essays about privatisation.
He is a contributing editor to The London Review of Books.
Meek’s third novel, The People’s Act of Love, published in 2005, brought him critical acclaim and a wider audience.
It was translated into more than twenty languages and earned a number of awards and a nomination for the Booker Prize.
The People's Act of Love, about a woman and her three lovers in a small Siberian town during the Russian Civil War, was followed by We Are Now Beginning Our Descent (2008), the story of a journalist who travels to Afghanistan immediately after 9/11, and The Heart Broke In (2012), set in contemporary Britain, where a newspaper editor blackmails a TV producer into betraying his sister.
Besides reporting on Britain and the former Soviet Union, Meek covered the military conflicts in Afghanistan and Iraq after 9/11.
In 2014 Meek published Private Island, a collection of essays, mainly from the London Review of Books, about the privatisation of Britain.
