Tim Pears

Tim Pears is the author of  six  novels, including  In the Place of Fallen Leaves, 1993, (awarded the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award)  In a Land of Plenty, 1997 (made into a ten-part BBC TV series) and Landed, 2010. Disputed Land comes out in 2011.  He has also published short stories and essays on sport.  In 1996 he received a Lannan Literary Award for Fiction, in America. He has taught creative writing with Ruskin College, Oxford, the Arvon Foundation, among other organisations. He was Writer in Residence at Cheltenham Festival of Literature, 2002-03,  and Royal Literary Fund Fellow at Oxford Brookes University 2006-08.