Sebastian Faulks
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Sebastian Charles Faulks, (born 20 April 1953), is an English novelist, writer, and broadcaster.
He is best known for his historical novels set in France – The Girl at the Lion d'Or, Birdsong, and Charlotte Gray.
He has also published books in a modern setting, including A Week in December 2009 and Paris Echo, (2018), as well as a James Bond continuation, P.G. Jeeves and the Wedding Bells, a Wodehouse's Jeeves collection, is available.
On BBC Radio 4's literary quiz The Write Stuff, he was a team captain.
Honours and awards
- 1994 British Book Awards Author of the Year.
- 1994 Franco British Society Award (winner) for Birdsong.
- 1997 Premio Bancarella Italy (shortlist) for Birdsong.
- 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for fiction (shortlist) for Charlotte Gray.
- 2002 Appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE), "For services to Literature".
- 2006 Honorary doctorate, Tavistock Clinic, University of East London.
- 2009 British Book Awards Popular Fiction Award (winner) for Devil May Care.
- 2010 Honorary doctorate, University of Hertfordshire.
- 2010 City of Zaragoza Award for Fiction (winner) for Birdsong.
- 2014 Bollinger Everyman Award (shortlist) for Jeeves and the Wedding Bells
- 2016 Tolstoy Prize, Moscow (shortlist) for Birdsong.
- 2018 Specsavers National Book Awards UK Author (shortlist) for Paris Echo.