The White Hotel: Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1981

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In August 2018, BBC Radio 4 broadcast an adaptation of Dennis Potter's screenplay, produced by Jon Amiel, producer of Potter's earlier The Singing Detective, with author Thomas's reminiscences about the book's publication and various film proposals. [9] [10] The BBC production starred Anne-Marie Duff as Lisa and Bill Paterson as Dr Probst. [11] a Freudian case study about the analysis of the pseudonymous Frau Anna G. (actually Lisa) - the style is that of Freud, and shows what an exceptional literary writer Freud was (whether or not you agree with the foundations of psychoanalysis); The White Hotel won the 1981 Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, the 1981 Cheltenham Prize for Literature and was shortlisted for the same year's Booker Prize.

Corona Man: A Fictional Verse Journal in the Plague Year (The Cornovia Press, 2020) ISBN 1-908878-18-5 But he dismissed accusations of misogyny, telling The Daily Telegraph’s Nigel Farndale in 1999 that his feminist critics “would rather explore things on sociological and political terms than confront their own demons”. Besides, he added, it was “easier for men to write about women than women about men because we’ve all been inside a woman – our mothers”. There was now also an impressive new screenwriter - Dennis Potter. I wrote to him saying how pleased I was. We had so much in common: working-class boys from isolated mining communities; going in the same year to the same Oxford college. In fact, I have a vivid memory of seeing him acting, redhaired and charismatic, in a Pirandello play performed in New College garden - the very place where my novel had been born. It all seemed perfect synchronicity. To cap it all, he was living just 20 miles from Hereford, in his native Forest of Dean. I proposed we should meet midway for a drink. Potter replied with a brief refusal, saying that he believed meetings should happen by chance. The upfront money from Geisler/ Roberdeau (Briarpatch Film Corporation, as they called themselves) didn't quite come through when it should have. Just a problem of moving it around between accounts, they assured us. We could see they were raw adventurers, riding on the seat of their pants; but that was part of their charm. Equally raw at writing screenplays, I did my best. They wrote encouragingly of my first draft - "What a great image, Don!... We love this scene... Could you maybe...?" and so on.

In the absence of a film version, the book was recently adapted for radio by the BBC, directed by Jon Amiel and based on a screenplay written by the late Dennis Potter in the 1980s. It has been directed by the Los Angeles-based Jon Amiel, who directed Potter’s 1986 serial The Singing Detective, and stars Anne-Marie Duff as Lisa and Bill Paterson as her psychoanalyst, Probst. a b c d e f g h i j k l m n o p q r s t u v "Personal History". I'm Cornish, and very proud of it. It's where I live now. His 1998 biography Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Century in His Life was awarded an Orwell Prize in 1999. [37]

The Granite Kingdom (Bradford Barton Ltd, Truro, 1970), an anthology of poems about Cornwall, edited by D. M. Thomas [56] Brown, Mark (3 August 2018). "Dennis Potter's adaptation of The White Hotel to premiere on Radio 4". The Guardian . Retrieved 15 September 2018. Felder, L., D M Thomas – The Plagiarism Controversy in Dictionary of Literary Biography Yearbook, 1982. In 1980 he returned to his former university, Oxford, for postgraduate work arranged by his former tutor John Bayley. However, he preferred to use his freedom to write his own fiction, which, liberated by his analysis, spurted up from the wellsprings of his psyche in a seemingly unstoppable stream. He was not interested in the traditional formal structure of the novel, explaining that he was too impatient to get his characters from room to room, or continually intersperse “He said” or “She cried”. Instead of naturalism, he relied on streams of poetic prose, dream sequences and coincidences. The course of Thomas’s life and work was determined by his sometime tumultuous relations with women The headline on one review read “Reader, I had sex with just about everybody”, but in the face of the furious reaction the book provoked in some quarters, Thomas was unrepentant. “I don’t think the Brontë scholars should get annoyed,” he said. “They just shouldn’t read it.”an hallucinatory, almost magic realist account of Lisa’s apparent arrival in Palestine/Heaven ("The Camp"). Thomas attended Trewirgie Primary School between 1940 and 1945, then Redruth Grammar School from 1946 until 1949. [1] [6] In 1949, he and his family moved to the Australian city of Melbourne. [1] Thomas spent the years between 1949 and 1951 at University High School there. [1] In 1951, he returned to Carnkie and to Redruth Grammar School. [1] Sweeney Byrne, Lucy (25 April 2020). "The White Hotel by DM Thomas: A funny, disgusting, essential work". The Irish Times. Archived from the original on 7 November 2022.