Rupert Thomson was born in Eastbourne, on the south coast of England, and educated at Christ’s Hospital School and Cambridge University, where he studied Medieval History and Political Thought.
He is the author of ten critically acclaimed novels, including The Insult, which was shortlisted for the Guardian Fiction Prize, and chosen by David Bowie as one of his 100 Must-Read Books of All Time, Death of a Murderer, which was shortlisted for the Costa Prize, and The Book of Revelation, which was made into a feature film by the Australian writer/director, Ana Kokkinos.
In 2010 he published a memoir, This Party’s Got to Stop, which won him the Writers’ Guild Non-Fiction Book of the Year. His new novel, Never Anyone but You, is based on the lives of the French artists and gender icons, Claude Cahun and Marcel Moore, and will be published in the US and the UK in the spring of 2018.
Rupert Thomson has contributed to the Financial Times, the Independent, the Guardian, and Granta Magazine, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature. He lives in London.
Rupert Thomson is participant of the seminar "British Literature Today", organised by the British Council in partnership with the Leo Tolstoy estate museum Yasnaya Polyana from 12 to 15 July 2017 at Yasnaya polyana.