Education
Fiennes was educated at the dragon School in Oxford, Eton College, and Oxford University, where he received both undergraduate and graduate degrees.
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William Fiennes
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Career
Aged 19, after a year teaching in Brazil, he was diagnosed with Crohn"s disease. William Fiennes is a descendant of the Fiennes family of Broughton Castle near Banbury, Oxfordshire. He is the youngest son of Nathaniel Fiennes, 21st Baron Saye and Sele (born 1920) and Mariette née Salisbury-Jones.
He is a distant relative of the writer Celia Fiennes.
Achievements
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lieutenant was shortlisted for the 2002 Samuel Johnson Prize and won the 2003 Hawthornden Prize, the 2003 Somerset Maugham Award and the 2003 Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award. The Music Room has been called "a small masterpiece, a tribute to the power of place, family and memory", "sublimely evocative" and "a beautiful and fortifying book, even a great one." "The Music Room" was shortlisted for the Costa Book Awards, the Duff Cooper Prize, the Ondaatje Prize, the Poets, Playwrights, Editors, Essayists and Novelists association/Ackerley Prize and the Independent Booksellers" Book of the Year Award. He is the Director and co-founder of the charity First Story, which promotes writing in challenging schools in Great Britain.
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United Kingdom
Awards
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Duff Cooper Prize; Somerset Maugham Award; Samuel Johnson Prize; Hawthornden Prize
The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors.; The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award that was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender.; The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is an annual British prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language.The Somerset Maugham Award is a British literary prize given each May by the Society of Authors.; The Hawthornden Prize is a British literary award that was established in 1919 by Alice Warrender.; The Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction is an annual British prize for the best non-fiction writing in the English language.