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Jonathan Trigell


Born
in The United Kingdom
January 01, 1974

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Jonathan Trigell is a British author. His first novel, entitled Boy A, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2004, the Waverton Good Read Award and the inaugural World Book Day Prize in 2008.

Jonathan completed an MA in creative writing at Manchester University in 2002. He spent most winters in Alps working in the Ski Industry and now lives in Chamonix, France.

Boy A is the story of a child criminal released into society as an adult. It has obvious and presumably deliberate parallels to the fates of the murderers of James Bulger, although the crime itself differs significantly.

Highly acclaimed critically, Boy A was described by Sarah Waters, Chair of the Judges for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, as "a compelling narrative, a beautifully structure
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“The shark's just a shark, right? No one calls it Jaws. It doesn't call itself Jaws. The film is called Jaws, the shark is just a fucking shark. So how can you say, "I like the bit where Jaws bites the boat"?”
jonathan trigell, Boy A
tags: humor

“What had he done? Something horrible, something terrible, but something he'd done as a child. Can you commit murder in innocence? It's too big a thing for the human mind to take in, that's the problem. And it grew with the ever-larger newspaper pictures of a girl who was near enough an angel, even before she died. Only the young die good. And Angela Milton died young enough to be perfect.”
Jonathan Trigell

“Si ricordava, ai tempi del processo, come tutti quelli che conosceva erano rimasti sconvolti al pensiero di cosa sarebbe stato avere una figlia uccisa in quel modo. Così brutale, insensato, malvagio. Nessuno si era fermato a pensare invece, a cosa sarebbe stato avere un figlio che era l'assassino. E' per questo che i due dovevano per forza essere malvagi, essere diversi: altri, demoni. Non potevano essere quello che un bambino normale sarebbe potuto diventare, nelle stesse circostanze.”
Jonathan Trigell, Boy A

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