Background
Joseph Oliver Dunthorne was born in Wales in 1982 in Swansea.
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He was educated in Swansea at Olchfa School, and before going on to study at the University of East Anglia he spent six months visiting Australia, New Zealand, Fiji and the United States.A. At UEA he took his Bachelor of Arts and Master of Arts
Career
A collection of his poems was published in 2010 in the Faber New Poets series. He has two sisters, Anna and Leah. in Creative Writing. In the final year of his Bachelor of Arts course he began writing his novel, Submarine, and while at university had several poems published in literary periodicals.
During his studies for his Master of Arts Shortly afterwards the novel was made into a film, Submarine, directed by Richard Ayoade and starring Craig Roberts.
The film premiered in Toronto in 2010, and was shown in London, Berlin and Swansea before going on general release in Britain in March 2011. In 2010 Faber published Joe Dunthorne Faber New Poets 5.
The following year Dunthorne"s second novel, Wild Abandon, appeared. Joe Dunthorne lives in London, England.
