Tom Rob Smith

Child 44, 2008, Longlisted

Tom Rob Smith

 

Tom Rob Smith was born in l979 to a Swedish mother and an English father and was brought up in London where he still lives.  He graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and spent a year in Italy on a creative writing scholarship.  Tom has worked as a screenwriter for the past five years, including a six-month stint in Phnom Penh storylining Cambodia’s first ever soap. Child 44 is his first novel.

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