![]() ![]() Returning to England he completed his first novel, Whore Banquets, which was published by Victor Gollancz in 1987 and won a Somerset Maugham Award in 1988. Upon completion he travelled to Tokyo, where he found work teaching English, and it was then that he first tried writing short stories. He went on to study History at Oxford University, specialising in the nineteenth century. Matthew Kneale was born in 1960, the son of two writers, and grew up in London surburbia. He is the author of several novels, including English Passengers which won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. Matthew Kneale studied Modern History at Oxford University. He is author of several novels, including English Passengers (2000) which won the Whitbread Award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. ![]() He then spent a year in Japan where he began writing short stories. ![]()
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