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Philip Hensher was born on 20 February, 1965 in London, United Kingdom, is an English novelist, critic and journalist. Discover Philip Hensher'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 59 years old?

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Age 59 years old
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Born 20 February, 1965
Birthday 20 February
Birthplace London, United Kingdom
Nationality United Kingdom

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1965

Philip Michael Hensher FRSL (born 20 February 1965) is an English novelist, critic and journalist.

Son of Raymond J. and Miriam Hensher, his father a bank manager and composer and his mother a university librarian, Hensher was born in South London,, although he spent the majority of his childhood and adolescence in Sheffield, attending Tapton School.

1992

He did his undergraduate degree at Lady Margaret Hall, Oxford, before attending Jesus College, Cambridge, where he was awarded a PhD in 1992 for work on 18th-century painting and satire.

Early in his career he worked as a clerk in the House of Commons, from which he was fired over the content of an interview he gave to a gay magazine.

He has published a number of novels, and is a regular contributor, columnist and book reviewer for newspapers and weeklies such as The Guardian, The Spectator, The Mail on Sunday and The Independent.

1995

Hensher wrote the libretto for Thomas Adès's opera Powder Her Face (1995) and in 2015 he edited The Penguin Book of the British Short Story.

Hensher's early works of fiction were characterized as having an "ironic, knowing distance from their characters" and "icily precise skewerings of pretension and hypocrisy".

His historical novel The Mulberry Empire "echoes with the rhythm and language of folk tales" while "play[ing] games" with narrative forms.

1999

The Bedroom of the Mister's Wife (1999) brings together 14 of his short stories, including "Dead Languages", which A. S. Byatt selected for her Oxford Book of English Short Stories (1998), making Hensher the youngest author included in the anthology.

He is Professor of Creative Writing at Bath Spa University, formerly Bath College of Higher Education.

2000

Since 2000 Philip Hensher has been listed as one of the 100 most influential LGBT people in Britain, and in 2003 he was selected as one of Granta's twenty Best of Young British Novelists.

2002

In 2002 his novel The Mulberry Empire was longlisted for the Man Booker Prize.

2005

From 2005 to 2012 he taught creative writing at the University of Exeter.

He has edited new editions of numerous classic works of English literature, including novels by Charles Dickens and Nancy Mitford.

Hensher has also served as a judge for the Booker Prize.

2007

He also won the Stonewall Prize for the Journalist of the Year in 2007 and the Somerset Maugham Award for his novel Kitchen Venom in 1996.

2008

In 2008 Hensher's semi-autobiographical novel The Northern Clemency was shortlisted for the prize.

2012

In 2012 he won first prize in the German Travel Writers Award and was shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize.

2013

In 2013 his novel Scenes from Early Life was shortlisted for the Green Carnation Prize, and awarded the Ondaatje Prize.

It is based on his husband's childhood against the backdrop of the war of independence in Bangladesh.

2018

Hensher served on the jury for the 2018 Scotiabank Giller Prize.

Hensher is married to Zaved Mahmood, a human rights lawyer at the United Nations.

Among Hensher's novels are:

He has also published two short story collections:

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