‘The Absolutist’ is the new novel by UEA Creative Writing alumnus John Boyne and is published by Doubleday in the UK this week. John’s 2006 novel for children, ‘The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas’, has sold 5 million copies worldwide and was released as a Heyday/Miramax feature film starring David
Thewlis in 2008. John completed the MA in Creative Writing in 1995, when he was the recipient of the Curtis Brown Award, and has published six previous novels and two novellas for adults as well as two titles for younger readers.
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