James Lasdun

James Lasdun (born 1958 in London) is a British writer who has lived in the United States since 1986.

Career
Lasdun has written two novels, The Horned Man (2002), a New York Times Notable Book, and Seven Lies, which was an Economist Book of the Year and was longlisted for the 2006 Man Booker Prize for fiction. He has published four collections of short stories, including The Siege: Selected Stories, the title story of which was adapted for film by Bernardo Bertolucci as ''Besieged. His latest collection It's Beginning To Hurt'' was published in 2009 and chosen as a Best Book of the Year by the LA Times, the Wall Street Journal, The Library Journal and The Atlantic.

With Jonathan Nossiter Lasdun co-wrote the film 'Sunday' (based on his story 'Ate Menos or The Miracle') which won both the Best Feature Award and the Waldo Salt Best Screenplay Award at Sundance.

Lasdun has written four books of poetry, one of which, Landscape with Chainsaw, was a finalist for the T S Eliot Prize, the Forward Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. It was also selected as a TLS International Book of the Year.

His reviews and essays have appeared in Harper's, Granta, the London Review of Books and the Guardian.

With his wife, Pia Davis, Lasdun has written two guide books dedicated to the combined pleasures of walking and eating; one in Tuscany and Umbria, the other in Provence.

He has taught creative writing at Princeton, NYU, The New York State Writer's Institute, The New School and Columbia University.

Critical appraisals of his work include reviews by James Wood in the Guardian (http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/1999/may/29/books.guardianreview18) and by Gabriele Annan in the New York Review of Books (http://www.nybooks.com/articles/archives/2002/may/09/)

Recognition

 * Winner of the Dylan Thomas Prize (short stories)
 * Recipient of Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry
 * Winner (with Jonathan Nossiter) of the Sundance Waldo Salt Best Screenplay Award for the film Sunday
 * Winner (1999) of the London Times Literary Supplement Poetry Competition
 * Winner of the inaugural BBC National Short Story Award (May 2006) for his story An Anxious Man.
 * Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

Short stories

 * Delirium Eclipse (1986) a.k.a. The Silver Age (1985)
 * Three Evenings (1992)
 * The Siege (a.k.a. Besieged) Selected Stories (2000)
 * It's Beginning To Hurt (2009)

Poetry

 * A Jump Start (1988)
 * After Ovid: New Metamorphoses (with Michael Hofmann) (1995)
 * Woman Police Officer in Elevator (1997)
 * Landscape with Chainsaw (2001)
 * Water Sessions (2012)

Novels

 * The Horned Man (2002)
 * Seven Lies (2005)

Miscellaneous

 * Sunday (Screenplay) with Jonathan Nossiter, starring David Suchet and Lisa Harrow
 * Signs and Wonders (Screenplay) with Jonathan Nossiter, starring Charlotte Rampling and Stellan Skarsgard
 * Introductions to the Collected Stories of Anton Chekhov (Folio), St Mawr by D.H.Lawrence (Penguin), As A Man Grows Older by Italo Svevo (nyrb), Amerika by Franz Kafka (Folio) and the Selected Stories of Paul Bowles (Penguin)
 * Walking and Eating in Tuscany and Umbria (with Pia Davis) (2004)
 * Walking and Eating in Provence (with Pia Davis) (2008)