Edward Docx
Edward Docx is an English writer.
His first novel, The Calligrapher, was published in 2003. He is an associate editor of New Statesman Magazine.
Biography
Docx was born in the north of England. He was educated at St Bede's College in Manchester and then at Christ's College, Cambridge, where he read English Literature and was President of the JCR.His mother was a classical music agent and he has described his upbringing as eccentric. He is the eldest child of a family of seven children. He lives in London.
Works
Docx's first novel, The Calligrapher, was short-listed for both the William Saroyan prize and the Guilford Prize. The San Francisco Chronicle called it the best debut book of the year.This was followed by Pravda, which was long-listed for the Man-Booker Prize and won the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize.
His third novel was The Devil's Garden.
His fourth novel, Let Go My Hand, was published in April 2017.
Docx's work is often extremely well received by critics in the UK and America. The New York Times has described him as 'fiendishly clever' and The Independent as a 'virtuoso phrasemaker' and one of the most humane writers of his generation. Docx was cited as one of the 21 most gifted young writers from around the world by The Hay Festival Committee.
Docx also works as a screenwriter for television and film. He is a contributing writer on the television adaptation of Slow Horses. He has co-written several film scripts with the Australian director P.J. Hogan and has worked variously with Andrew Davies, Ringside Productions, Rainmark and Mandabach on television drama in the UK.
Docx co-writes the Swift and Hawk series of children's books with Matthew Plampin under the pen name Logan Macx. The first book in the series, Swift and Hawk: Cyberspies, was published in 2022.