Tim Parks

About Tim Parks

Timothy Harold Parks is a British author, novelist, translator, and literature professor. He has authored more than eighteen novels, with his first novel, Tongues of Flame winning the Somerset Maugham Award and Betty Trask Award in 1986. The same year, Park’s book Loving Roger won John Llewellyn Rhys Prize. Other of Parks’s highly praised books include Destiny, Shear, Cleaver, Judge Savage, and In Extremis. Some of Parks stories have also been published in The New Yorker. Since the 1990’s Parks has often written for both the New York Review of Books and the London Review of Books. He has also published several works of non-fiction, with A Season with Verona getting shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, while his other book, Teach Us to Sit Still, was nominated for