Template:Short description Template:Use British English Template:Use dmy dates Template:Infobox person Dan Rhodes (born 1972) is an English writer known for the novel Timoleon Vieta Come Home (2003), a subversion of the popular Lassie Come Home movie. He is also the author of Anthropology (2000), a collection of 101 stories, each consisting of exactly 101 words. In 2010 he was awarded the E. M. Forster Award.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
BiographyEdit
Rhodes grew up in Devon,<ref name=thisis>Writer hopes readers give his new book a big hand Template:Webarchive, thisisderbyshire.co.uk.</ref> and graduated in Humanities from the University of Glamorgan (now the University of South Wales) in 1994, returning in 1997 to complete an MA in Creative Writing.<ref>Volume 6 Issue 1 2010 of The Scottish Review of Books</ref> Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love was written at this time. He has held a variety of jobs, including stockroom assistant for Waterstones, barman in his parents' pub, and a teacher in Ho Chi Minh City. He has also worked on a fruit and vegetable farm<ref>Evans, Lloyd. A writer's life: Dan Rhodes, The Daily Telegraph, 22 March 2003.</ref> and is still employed as a postman.<ref>Lee, Stewart. Episode 1 (0:33:45), Book Shambles with Robin Ince and Josie Long, 11 November 2015.</ref>
Following the publication of his second book, Rhodes's frustration with the publishing industry led him to announce his retirement from writing, though he later said, "I haven't really given up. I'm certainly not making any more grand pronouncements. I was just sick of the business and wanted out. Not just the publishers; everyone around me." Template:Citation needed
Rhodes was included on Granta's Best of Young British Novelists list in 2003, to his own bemusement and frustration, partly because of Granta's selection methods ("It's one thing to judge a writer by stuff they've written, but to judge them on stuff they're going to write is lunacy") but also because some of the others on the list failed to respond to his request to sign a joint statement protesting the Iraq War.<ref name=Guest>Guest, Katy. Dan Rhodes: 'Revenge is why I write', The Independent, 7 February 2010.</ref><ref name=Gallix>Gallix, Andrew. A small but satisfactory kick in Blair's nuts, 3ammagazine.com, July 2003.</ref>
In 2014, Rhodes self-published the novel When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow, a "rural farce" about a visit to an obscure English village by a fictional Richard Dawkins, stating that he wanted to get the book out faster than conventional publishing allowed.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
In 2021, Lightning Books published his novel Sour Grapes, a satire on the literary world set at a rural book festival.<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation |CitationClass=web }}</ref>
Rhodes is married with two children.<ref name=Guest />
BibliographyEdit
CollectionsEdit
- Anthropology: And a Hundred Other Stories (2000) Template:ISBN
- Don't Tell Me the Truth About Love (2001) Template:ISBN
- Marry Me (2013) Template:ISBN
NovelsEdit
- Timoleon Vieta Come Home (2003) Template:ISBN
- The Little White Car (under the pen name Danuta de Rhodes) (2004) Template:ISBN
- Gold (2007) Template:ISBN
- Little Hands Clapping (2010) Template:ISBN
- This Is Life (2012) Template:ISBN
- When the Professor Got Stuck in the Snow (2014, self-published limited edition; 2015 formal publication by Aardvark Bureau<ref>{{#invoke:citation/CS1|citation
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- Sour Grapes (2021) Template:ISBN