James Lasdun is a British writer now living in the United States. He has published three collections of short stories, THE SILVER AGE, THREE EVENINGS and IT'S BEGINNING TO HURT, and four books of poetry, A JUMP START, THE REVENANT, LANDSCAPE WITH CHAINSAW, which was short-listed for the 2001 Forward Prize, and WATER SESSIONS. With Michael Hofmann he co-edited the anthology AFTER OVID. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the New York Review of Books, the Times Literary Supplement and the London Review of Books. His awards include the Dylan Thomas Award for short fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship in poetry, and first prize in the 1999 TLS/Blackwells Poetry Competition. He has taught Creative Writing at Columbia, Princeton and New York Universities. Lasdun co-wrote the screenplay for 'Sunday', starring David Suchet and Lisa Harrow, which won both the Best Screenplay and the Grand Jury Prize for Best Feature at the Sundance Film Festival of 1997. His story 'The Siege' was adapted by Bernardo Bertolucci into the film 'Besieged'. Lasdun's first novel, THE HORNED MAN, was published in 2002 to superb reviews. His second novel, SEVEN LIES, was published in 2006 and was long-listed for the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In May 2006 James's short story 'An Anxious Man' won the inaugural National Short Story Prize, sponsored by Prospect magazine in association with NESTA and the BBC. IT'S BEGINNING TO HURT was published in April 2009, and several of the stories were read on Radio 4's 'Book at Bedtime'.  James Lasdun's latest book is GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU HAVE. Author photo: Nina Subin

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GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU HAVE - A true story of obsessive love turning to obsessive hate, GIVE ME EVERYTHING YOU HAVE chronicles James Lasdun's strange and harrowing ordeal at the hands of a former student, a self-styled...

IT'S BEGINNING TO HURT - James Lasdun is one of the finest short story writers we have. His new collection features the story 'An Anxious Man', which won the inaugural Prospect/BBC competition in 2006. Other stories...

SEVEN LIES - Stefan Vogel grew up in the Big Brother society of East Germany. He describes himself as a poet, and can point to work in obscure literary magazines as proof. But Stefan Vogel lives with a terrible...

THE HORNED MAN - When Lawrence Miller discovers that his bookmark has mysteriously moved thirty pages on in his current reading, this is only the beginning of a series of apparently inexplicable circumstances in his...

WATER SESSIONS - James Lasdun's new book of poems, his first since his acclaimed collection LANDSCAPE WITH CHAINSAW, applies his characteristic blend of the celebratory and the elegiac to a rich variety of new...