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:

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.

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Which literary character most resembles you?

It’s arrogant, but the cat in Mikhail Bulgakov’s The Master and Margarita.

Read the full Q & A.

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