His last novel – entitled Self Help in the UK and Pravda in the US – won The Geoffrey Faber Prize and was long listed for the Man Booker. Amazon (USA) listed Pravda as one of the best 25 books of the year (2008) and Docx was named as one of the 21 most gifted young writers from around the world by The Hay Festival committee.
His first novel, The Calligrapher, was cited by The San Francisco Chronicle as a best book of the year (2004) and was a finalist in The William Saroyan Prize (Stanford) and The Guilford (London).
Edward Docx lives in London and is currently at work on his third novel, which is scheduled for publication in 2010.
