Rupert Thomson
Rupert Thomson is the author of eight novels, among them The Five Gates of Hell (1991), The Insult (1996) and Divided Kingdom (2005). His latest novel, Death of a Murderer, has been shortlisted for the 2007 Costa Novel Award.
Anna Metcalfe of the Financial Times asked him a few questions.
Two exchanges from the interview:
Read the full Q & A.What is the last thing you read that made you laugh out loud?
Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris, the greatest office novel ever.
* * *Which literary character most resembles you?
It’s arrogant, but the cat in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita.
--Marshal Zeringue
