John Murray topic

John Murray (born c.1950, West Cumbria) is an English writer and novelist known for writing satirical novels on a range of subjects. In 1984 he founded the prestigious fiction magazine Panurge, which he edited with fellow author David Almond until 1996. Murray's first novel, Samarkand, was published in 1985 and in 1988 he received the Dylan Thomas Award for his collection of stories, Pleasure. In 2002 his novel John Dory won a Lakeland Book of the Year Award, and his book Jazz Etc was... full article at wikipedia