Torday, Paul, 1946-2013
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Name (Hebrew)
טורדי, פול, 1946-2013
Name (Latin)
Torday, Paul, 1946-2013
Other forms of name
Torday, Paul, 1946-
Date of birth
1946-08-01
Date of death
2013-12-18
Place of birth
Croxdale (England)
Associated country
England
Great Britain
Place of residence/headquarters
Northumberland (England)
Field of activity
Fiction
Occupation
Novelists
Businessmen
Associated Language
eng
Gender
male
MARC
MARC
Sources of Information
- ספר: דיג סלמונים בתימן, 2008.
- Torday, Paul. Salmon fishing in the Yemen, 2007:ECIP t.p. (Paul Torday) data view (b. in 1946, lives in Northumberland UK)
- Guardian (online), viewed Dec. 19, 2013(Paul Torday; b. Aug. 1, 1946, Croxdale, County Durham; d. Dec. 18, 2013; businessman who turned to writing late in life and scored a huge international hit with his first novel, Salmon fishing in the Yemen)
Wikipedia description:
Paul Torday (; 1 August 1946 – 18 December 2013) was a British writer and the author of the comic novel Salmon Fishing in the Yemen. The book was the winner of the 2007 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for comic writing and was serialised on BBC Radio 4. It won the Waverton Good Read Award in 2008. It was made into a 2011 feature film of the same name, starring Ewan McGregor and Emily Blunt.
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