Will Fiennes
William Fiennes is a critically acclaimed author and writer. His first novel, The Snow Geese, won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Hawthornden Prize for literature and was shortlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize. He was the Sunday Times’ Young Writer of the Year in 2003, and has been described as “one of the finest stylists of his generation” (the Sunday Times). His second novel, The Music Room, has just been published this spring.
William currently lives in Oxford, and has previously written for a number of publications including Granta, the Observer, the London Book Review, the Telegraph and the Times Literary Supplement. As a budding writer he spent two years as Fellow in the Creative Arts at Oxford’s Wolfson College and co-founded First Story, a charity dedicated to fostering creativity and literacy in young people by arranging and financing for authors to become writers in residence at schools across the country. William himself is currently writer-in-residence at London’s American School and Cranford Community College.
At this year’s Port Eliot Festival, William will be hosting tree walks around the estate, reading from The Music Room, and running a special children’s writing workshop in the Walled Garden with Kamila Shamsie.
“William Fiennes is a magician with language, a narrative genius, and one of the keenest and most lucid observers of birds - and American culture, and human nature - that I’ve read. This book is a shout-out-loud treasure.”
Rick Bass
“A stunning meditation on his home, and on the life of his older brother Richard… Fiennes’ prose is precise and poetic, rich in metaphor and mythology. A tender and poignant insight into family life.”
Psychologies magazine
Links:
- Stairway to Heaven – the Guardian review of The Snow Geese
- Article on The Snow Geese in the Indpendent
