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Toby Litt
Toby Litt is an English writer〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Results for 'au:Litt, Toby,' () )〕 and academic in the Department of English and Humanities at Birkbeck, University of London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Toby Litt )〕
==Life==
Litt was born in Ampthill in 1968. He was educated at Bedford Modern School,〔''School of the Black and Red'', by A.G. Underwood (1980); updated (2010), p. 286〕 read English at Worcester College, Oxford and studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he was taught by Malcolm Bradbury.〔
A short story by Toby Litt was included in the anthology ''All Hail the New Puritans'' (2000), edited by Matt Thorne and Nicholas Blincoe, and he has edited ''The Outcry'' (2001), Henry James's last completed novel, for Penguin in the UK.〔 In 2003 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 'Best of Young British Novelists',〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=writers' hub - birkbeck )〕 although his work since then has met with mixed reviews, one reviewer in the Guardian writing that his novel ''I Play the Drums in a Band Called Okay'' "goes on ... and on, and on. There is plenty of story here, but little plot, and no tension."〔Tadzio Koelb, "I Play the Drums in a Band Called okay", ''The Guardian'' 27 March 2009 ()〕 He edited the 13th edition of New Writing (the British Council's annual anthology of the finest contemporary writing in fiction, non-fiction and poetry)〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=New writing 13 )〕 and is known for naming his books in alphabetical order.〔
Litt wrote an interactive short story, using livejournal and Twitter, as part of the Penguin ''We Tell Stories'' project.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=We Tell Stories - Authors: Toby Litt )〕 He is currently a lecturer in Creative Writing at Birkbeck, University of London〔 and led the campaign to get Arvind Mehrotra elected to the Oxford Professor of Poetry following Ruth Padel's resignation. In 2011, he took part in the Bush Theatre's ''Sixty Six Books'' project where he wrote a piece based upon a book of the King James Bible.
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