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Magnus Mills is an English author of several novels and short stories. == Background == Magnus Mills was born in Birmingham and brought up in Bristol. After graduating with an economics degree from Wolverhampton Polytechnic, he started a master's degree at the University of Warwick but dropped out before completion.〔(Julian Flanagan: "Booker prize winner prefers driving a bus" ), ''The Telegraph'', 11 August 2009〕 Between 1979 and 1986 he built high-tensile fences for a living, an experience he drew upon for his first novel, ''The Restraint of Beasts''. In 1986 Mills moved to London and became a bus driver, used for his 2009 novel ''The Maintenance of Headway''. Although much was made in the British press of Mills' bus-driving background, in reality he had written a column for ''The Independent'' before becoming a novelist.〔 (Rumours also claimed that he'd earned a total of £1 million, but the real figure was closer to £10,000.〔Terence Blacker: ''Lies, damned lies and publishers' advances'', http://www.independent.co.uk/opinion/commentators/terence-blacker/lies-damned-lies-and-publishers-advances-600028.html, 10 March 2003.〕) Mills later claimed that he lost his gig at ''The Independent'' when "one week, in exactly the same place that my column had been, there was a new item entitled 'Bridget Jones' Diary'." Mills's ''The Restraint of Beasts'' was shortlisted for the Booker Prize and the Whitbread First Novel Award in 1998, won the McKitterick Prize in 1999, and earned a rare jacket quote from reclusive author Thomas Pynchon, who called it "a demented, dead-pan comic wonder." His 2005 novel, ''Explorers of the New Century'', was released to good reviews from ''The Sunday Times'',〔 〕 ''The Independent'',〔 and ''The Telegraph'', among others. Having written his first quartet of novels for Flamingo, ''Explorers of the New Century'' marked a new partnership with Harry Potter publishers Bloomsbury. Mills' has also written two books of very short stories, ''Once in a Blue Moon'' and ''Only When the Sun Shines Brightly'' for Acorn Books. In his 2011 novel ''A Cruel Bird Came to the Nest and Looked In'', Mills depicts a kingdom whose king has gone missing without explanation, leaving an absurdist realm "lost in an English fairy-tale world." 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Magnus Mills」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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