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Lawrence Osborne

January 16, 2023

This article is about the British author. For the English footballer, see Lawrence Osborne (footballer). For the American baseballer, see Bobo Osborne.

Lawrence Osborne (born 1958) is a British novelist and journalist who is currently residing in Bangkok. Osborne was educated at Fitzwilliam College, Cambridge,[1] and at Harvard University, and has since led a nomadic life, residing for years in Poland,[2] France, Italy, Morocco, the United States, Mexico, Thailand, and Istanbul.

Lawrence Osborne
Born1958 (1958) (age 65)
London, England
EducationFitzwilliam College, Cambridge; Harvard University
Notable awardsEdgar Award nomination Best Novel (2019)
Best American Short Stories (2012)
The New York Times Notable Book (2018)

Osborne has been published widely as a long-form journalist in the United States, most notably in The New York Times Magazine,[3] The New Yorker,[4] Gourmet, Salon, Playboy, and Condé Nast Traveler. His writings about wine and spirits appeared in a regular column called Cellar in Men's Vogue.[5] He has also been an occasional Op-Ed columnist at Forbes.com and is a frequent contributor to Newsweek International, The Daily Beast, and The Wall Street Journal Magazine. His feature for Playboy, "Getting a Drink in Islamabad", won a 2011 Thomas Lowell Award for Travel Journalism.

He is the author of the novel Ania Malina;[6] a book about Paris, Paris Dreambook;[7] the essay collection The Poisoned Embrace;[8] a controversial book about autism called American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome;[9] and three subsequent travel books published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux between 2004 and 2009: a book about wine, The Accidental Connoisseur;[10] The Naked Tourist;[11] and an account of expatriate life in Bangkok called Bangkok Days.[12] His short stories have appeared in many American magazines. His story "Volcano", originally published in Tin House, was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2012. His novel The Forgiven was published in 2012 to widespread acclaim. It was selected by The Economist as one of the Best Books of the Year for 2012.[13][14] Osborne's next book, The Wet and the Dry, a travelogue about Islam and alcohol, was published in 2013. It was included in the Top 10 Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review critic, Dwight Garner.

Reception

Reviewing Osborne's 2004 nonfiction wine-world travelogue The Accidental Connoisseur in The New York Times, Tony Hendra wrote: "Osborne is a new voice in the wine world, smart, generous, perceptive, funny, sensible, free of cant and arrogance and self-interest."[15]

A novel, The Ballad of a Small Player, was published by Hogarth in spring 2014 to considerable critical acclaim, both in the United States and the United Kingdom. The New York Times selected it as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2014.[16] NPR also included it in its Year's Best Books of 2014.[17] Paul French in the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote that "Osborne's novel is the best on contemporary China since Malraux's."[18] Neel Mukherjee picked it as one of his Books of the Year in The New Statesman.[19] In the London Sunday Times, Robert Collins wrote: "A modern Graham Greene.... into this relatively quiet period for British fiction, someone remarkable and unexpected has emerged fully armed with a formidable, masterly grip on the British novel. At precisely the point where most novelists start to show signs of flagging, Osborne has hit his creative, fictional stride...and has arrived as a thrilling, exceptional talent in British fiction's landscape."[20]

 

His third novel, Hunters in the Dark, was published by Hogarth in May 2015 and received glowing reviews on both sides of the Atlantic. Arifa Akbar, literary editor of The Independent in London, selected it as one of her 15 Best Novels of 2015,[21] and the novel was notably praised by Neel Mukerjee in The Guardian [22] and by Lee Child in The New York Times Book Review.[23] Nishant Dahiya reviewed it for NPR.[24] British critic David Sexton wrote in the Evening Standard: "Those comparisons with Graham Greene aren't even flattering any more."[25][26] Anita Sethi reviewed it in The Guardian with praise for its stylistic finesse.[27]

Beautiful Animals was published by Hogarth in July 2017 and was featured on the cover of The New York Times Book Review with a review by the Japanese-American novelist Katie Kitamura.[28] In her long review of the novel in The Washington Post, Lionel Shriver wrote: "So let's not mince words. This is a great book."[29]

Osborne was asked by the Raymond Chandler estate to write the next Philip Marlowe novel, released in 2018. Widely and favorably reviewed, Only to Sleep was selected by philosopher John Gray as his Book of the Year in the New Statesman,[30] and was included in The New York Times 100 Most Notable Books of 2018 [31] and NPR's Best Books of 2018.[32] It was selected by William Boyd in the same category in The Guardian.[33]

The Glass Kingdom was published in 2020 and was included in the New York Times Notable 100 Books of 2020. It was also reviewed at length in a profile of the author by John Gray in The New Statesman.[34]

Films

As reported by The Hollywood Reporter, Osborne sat on the jury of the 2017 Macau Film Festival.[35] The screen version of The Forgiven was announced at Cannes in 2018 with director John Michael McDonagh and Ralph Fiennes, Jessica Chastain and Matt Smith attached. Shooting began in Morocco in February 2020 and was completed in September of that year. The film was shown at a Gala opening at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival and will be shown at the Tribeca Festival in 2022 prior to its US release with Focus and Roadside.[36] Beautiful Animals, to be set in Greece, is currently in development with Anonymous Content and Endeavour and The Glass Kingdom has been acquired by Apple for development as a limited series. "The Ballad of a Small Player" is also currently in development with Curzon.

In June 2020 it was announced by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter that Osborne will script and co-produce the film adaptation of Jon Swain's 1997 Vietnam war memoir River of Time in conjunction with Indochina Productions.

A novel On Java Road, set in Hong Kong, will appear with Random House in August 2022 and a collection of short stories, Burning Angel, will be published in 2023.

Bibliography

References

  1. ^ (PDF). Fitzwilliam College. 2013. Archived from the original (PDF) on 22 February 2014. Retrieved 7 February 2014.
  2. ^ Cumming, Ed (7 February 2016), "Lawrence Osborne interview: how the novelist became the new Graham Greene", The Observer.
  3. ^ New York Times Search: Lawrence Osborne
  4. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (18 April 2005). "Letter from New Guinea: Strangers in the Forest", The New Yorker, p. 124.
  5. ^ "Lawrence Osborne". 8 June 2019.
  6. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (1 February 1989). Ania Malina. ISBN 9780140113105.
  7. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (2 June 1992). Paris dreambook: An unconventional guide to the splendor and squalor of the city. ISBN 9780679737759.
  8. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (1 October 1993). The poisoned embrace: A brief history of sexual pessimism. ISBN 9780679427230.
  9. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (8 May 2007). American Normal: The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome. ISBN 9780387218076.
  10. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (15 March 2004). The Accidental Connoisseur: An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World. ISBN 9781429935111.
  11. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (12 June 2007). The Naked Tourist: In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall. ISBN 9781429934985.
  12. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (26 May 2009). Bangkok Days: A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure. ISBN 9781429957328.
  13. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (30 October 2011). "Boxer, Godfather, Politician. Can Manny Pacquiao Do Everything?". Thedailybeast.com. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  14. ^ Osborne, Lawrence (25 September 2011). "Pedro Almodóvar on the Verge". Thedailybeast.com. Retrieved 29 December 2013.
  15. ^ Hendra, Tony (28 March 2004). "The Reign of Terroir". The New York Times.
  16. ^ Times, The New York (2 December 2014). "100 Notable Books of 2014". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  17. ^ "NPR's Book Concierge: Our Guide To 2014's Great Reads". apps.npr.org. 3 December 2014. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  18. ^ French, Paul (14 January 2015). "The Book the China Crowd Missed – Lawrence Osborne's the Ballad of a Small Player". Los Angeles Review of Books.
  19. ^ "Books of the Year: NS friends and contributors choose their favourite reading of 2014". www.newstatesman.com. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  20. ^ Collins, Robert. "The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne". The Times. ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  21. ^ Akbar, Arifa (26 November 2015). "Christmas 2015: The top 15 books in fiction". The Independent.
  22. ^ Mukherjee, Neel (6 May 2015). "Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne review – edgy, gripping and beautifully written". The Guardian.
  23. ^ Child, Lee (13 January 2016). "'Hunters in the Dark,' by Lawrence Osborne". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  24. ^ Dahiya, Nishant (16 January 2015). "'Hunters' is a Dark, Elegant Tale of East and West". NPR.
  25. ^ Sexton, David (7 May 2015). "Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne - review: Stepping out of the". Evening Standard.
  26. ^ Kemp, Peter (3 May 2015). "Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne". The Sunday Times.
  27. ^ Sethi, Anita (24 May 2015). "Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne review – expert narrative". The Guardian.
  28. ^ Kitamura, Katie (5 July 2017). "Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore". The New York Times.
  29. ^ Shriver, Lionel (13 July 2017). "Let's not mince words: Lawrence Osborne's 'Beautiful Animals' is a great book". Washington Post. Retrieved 6 March 2019.
  30. ^ "The best books of 2018", New Statesman, 14 November 2018.
  31. ^ "New York Times: 100 Notable Books of 2018", The New York Times, 20 November 2018.
  32. ^ "NPR's Book Concierge | Our Guide To 2018's Great Reads", NPR, 27 November 2018.
  33. ^ "Best summer books 2018, as picked by writers – part one", The Guardian, 7 July 2018.
  34. ^ [1], New Statesman, 7 October 2020.
  35. ^ "Macau Festival Chief on Making the Casino Capital into a Major Moviegoing Destination (Q&A) | Hollywood Reporter". www.hollywoodreporter.com. 8 December 2017. Retrieved 8 September 2020.
  36. ^ "John Michael McDonagh's The Forgiven commences filming". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 8 September 2020.

External links

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This article is about the British author For the English footballer see Lawrence Osborne footballer For the American baseballer see Bobo Osborne Lawrence Osborne born 1958 is a British novelist and journalist who is currently residing in Bangkok Osborne was educated at Fitzwilliam College Cambridge 1 and at Harvard University and has since led a nomadic life residing for years in Poland 2 France Italy Morocco the United States Mexico Thailand and Istanbul Lawrence OsborneBorn1958 1958 age 65 London EnglandEducationFitzwilliam College Cambridge Harvard UniversityNotable awardsEdgar Award nomination Best Novel 2019 Best American Short Stories 2012 The New York Times Notable Book 2018 Osborne has been published widely as a long form journalist in the United States most notably in The New York Times Magazine 3 The New Yorker 4 Gourmet Salon Playboy and Conde Nast Traveler His writings about wine and spirits appeared in a regular column called Cellar in Men s Vogue 5 He has also been an occasional Op Ed columnist at Forbes com and is a frequent contributor to Newsweek International The Daily Beast and The Wall Street Journal Magazine His feature for Playboy Getting a Drink in Islamabad won a 2011 Thomas Lowell Award for Travel Journalism He is the author of the novel Ania Malina 6 a book about Paris Paris Dreambook 7 the essay collection The Poisoned Embrace 8 a controversial book about autism called American Normal The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome 9 and three subsequent travel books published by Farrar Straus and Giroux between 2004 and 2009 a book about wine The Accidental Connoisseur 10 The Naked Tourist 11 and an account of expatriate life in Bangkok called Bangkok Days 12 His short stories have appeared in many American magazines His story Volcano originally published in Tin House was selected for inclusion in The Best American Short Stories 2012 His novel The Forgiven was published in 2012 to widespread acclaim It was selected by The Economist as one of the Best Books of the Year for 2012 13 14 Osborne s next book The Wet and the Dry a travelogue about Islam and alcohol was published in 2013 It was included in the Top 10 Books of 2013 by The New York Times Book Review critic Dwight Garner Contents 1 Reception 2 Films 3 Bibliography 4 References 5 External linksReception EditReviewing Osborne s 2004 nonfiction wine world travelogue The Accidental Connoisseur in The New York Times Tony Hendra wrote Osborne is a new voice in the wine world smart generous perceptive funny sensible free of cant and arrogance and self interest 15 A novel The Ballad of a Small Player was published by Hogarth in spring 2014 to considerable critical acclaim both in the United States and the United Kingdom The New York Times selected it as one of its 100 Notable Books of 2014 16 NPR also included it in its Year s Best Books of 2014 17 Paul French in the Los Angeles Review of Books wrote that Osborne s novel is the best on contemporary China since Malraux s 18 Neel Mukherjee picked it as one of his Books of the Year in The New Statesman 19 In the London Sunday Times Robert Collins wrote A modern Graham Greene into this relatively quiet period for British fiction someone remarkable and unexpected has emerged fully armed with a formidable masterly grip on the British novel At precisely the point where most novelists start to show signs of flagging Osborne has hit his creative fictional stride and has arrived as a thrilling exceptional talent in British fiction s landscape 20 His third novel Hunters in the Dark was published by Hogarth in May 2015 and received glowing reviews on both sides of the Atlantic Arifa Akbar literary editor of The Independent in London selected it as one of her 15 Best Novels of 2015 21 and the novel was notably praised by Neel Mukerjee in The Guardian 22 and by Lee Child in The New York Times Book Review 23 Nishant Dahiya reviewed it for NPR 24 British critic David Sexton wrote in the Evening Standard Those comparisons with Graham Greene aren t even flattering any more 25 26 Anita Sethi reviewed it in The Guardian with praise for its stylistic finesse 27 Beautiful Animals was published by Hogarth in July 2017 and was featured on the cover of The New York Times Book Review with a review by the Japanese American novelist Katie Kitamura 28 In her long review of the novel in The Washington Post Lionel Shriver wrote So let s not mince words This is a great book 29 Osborne was asked by the Raymond Chandler estate to write the next Philip Marlowe novel released in 2018 Widely and favorably reviewed Only to Sleep was selected by philosopher John Gray as his Book of the Year in the New Statesman 30 and was included in The New York Times 100 Most Notable Books of 2018 31 and NPR s Best Books of 2018 32 It was selected by William Boyd in the same category in The Guardian 33 The Glass Kingdom was published in 2020 and was included in the New York Times Notable 100 Books of 2020 It was also reviewed at length in a profile of the author by John Gray in The New Statesman 34 Films EditAs reported by The Hollywood Reporter Osborne sat on the jury of the 2017 Macau Film Festival 35 The screen version of The Forgiven was announced at Cannes in 2018 with director John Michael McDonagh and Ralph Fiennes Jessica Chastain and Matt Smith attached Shooting began in Morocco in February 2020 and was completed in September of that year The film was shown at a Gala opening at the 2021 Toronto Film Festival and will be shown at the Tribeca Festival in 2022 prior to its US release with Focus and Roadside 36 Beautiful Animals to be set in Greece is currently in development with Anonymous Content and Endeavour and The Glass Kingdom has been acquired by Apple for development as a limited series The Ballad of a Small Player is also currently in development with Curzon In June 2020 it was announced by both Variety and The Hollywood Reporter that Osborne will script and co produce the film adaptation of Jon Swain s 1997 Vietnam war memoir River of Time in conjunction with Indochina Productions A novel On Java Road set in Hong Kong will appear with Random House in August 2022 and a collection of short stories Burning Angel will be published in 2023 Bibliography EditAnia Malina 1989 American Normal 2002 The Accidental Connoisseur 2004 The Naked Tourist 2006 Bangkok Days 2009 The Forgiven 2012 The Wet and the Dry 2013 The Ballad of a Small Player 2014 Hunters in the Dark 2015 Beautiful Animals 2017 Only to Sleep 2018 a Philip Marlowe novel The Glass Kingdom 2020 On Java Road 2022 References Edit Books by Members Optima p 18 PDF Fitzwilliam College 2013 Archived from the original PDF on 22 February 2014 Retrieved 7 February 2014 Cumming Ed 7 February 2016 Lawrence Osborne interview how the novelist became the new Graham Greene The Observer New York Times Search Lawrence Osborne Osborne Lawrence 18 April 2005 Letter from New Guinea Strangers in the Forest The New Yorker p 124 Lawrence Osborne 8 June 2019 Osborne Lawrence 1 February 1989 Ania Malina ISBN 9780140113105 Osborne Lawrence 2 June 1992 Paris dreambook An unconventional guide to the splendor and squalor of the city ISBN 9780679737759 Osborne Lawrence 1 October 1993 The poisoned embrace A brief history of sexual pessimism ISBN 9780679427230 Osborne Lawrence 8 May 2007 American Normal The Hidden World of Asperger Syndrome ISBN 9780387218076 Osborne Lawrence 15 March 2004 The Accidental Connoisseur An Irreverent Journey Through the Wine World ISBN 9781429935111 Osborne Lawrence 12 June 2007 The Naked Tourist In Search of Adventure and Beauty in the Age of the Airport Mall ISBN 9781429934985 Osborne Lawrence 26 May 2009 Bangkok Days A Sojourn in the Capital of Pleasure ISBN 9781429957328 Osborne Lawrence 30 October 2011 Boxer Godfather Politician Can Manny Pacquiao Do Everything Thedailybeast com Retrieved 29 December 2013 Osborne Lawrence 25 September 2011 Pedro Almodovar on the Verge Thedailybeast com Retrieved 29 December 2013 Hendra Tony 28 March 2004 The Reign of Terroir The New York Times Times The New York 2 December 2014 100 Notable Books of 2014 The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 8 September 2020 NPR s Book Concierge Our Guide To 2014 s Great Reads apps npr org 3 December 2014 Retrieved 8 September 2020 French Paul 14 January 2015 The Book the China Crowd Missed Lawrence Osborne s the Ballad of a Small Player Los Angeles Review of Books Books of the Year NS friends and contributors choose their favourite reading of 2014 www newstatesman com Retrieved 8 September 2020 Collins Robert The Ballad of a Small Player by Lawrence Osborne The Times ISSN 0140 0460 Retrieved 8 September 2020 Akbar Arifa 26 November 2015 Christmas 2015 The top 15 books in fiction The Independent Mukherjee Neel 6 May 2015 Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne review edgy gripping and beautifully written The Guardian Child Lee 13 January 2016 Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne The New York Times ISSN 0362 4331 Retrieved 8 September 2020 Dahiya Nishant 16 January 2015 Hunters is a Dark Elegant Tale of East and West NPR Sexton David 7 May 2015 Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne review Stepping out of the Evening Standard Kemp Peter 3 May 2015 Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne The Sunday Times Sethi Anita 24 May 2015 Hunters in the Dark by Lawrence Osborne review expert narrative The Guardian Kitamura Katie 5 July 2017 Affluent Idlers Find a Just Cause in a Refugee Swept Ashore The New York Times Shriver Lionel 13 July 2017 Let s not mince words Lawrence Osborne s Beautiful Animals is a great book Washington Post Retrieved 6 March 2019 The best books of 2018 New Statesman 14 November 2018 New York Times 100 Notable Books of 2018 The New York Times 20 November 2018 NPR s Book Concierge Our Guide To 2018 s Great Reads NPR 27 November 2018 Best summer books 2018 as picked by writers part one The Guardian 7 July 2018 1 New Statesman 7 October 2020 Macau Festival Chief on Making the Casino Capital into a Major Moviegoing Destination Q amp A Hollywood Reporter www hollywoodreporter com 8 December 2017 Retrieved 8 September 2020 John Michael McDonagh s The Forgiven commences filming Cineuropa the best of european cinema Retrieved 8 September 2020 External links EditOfficial website Retrieved from https en wikipedia org w index php title Lawrence Osborne amp oldid 1109824955, wikipedia, wiki, book, books, library,

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