LAWRENCE NORFOLK - 2016

Lawrence Norfolk is a British author of four historical novels: Lemprière’s Dictionary (1991), The Pope’s Rhinoceros (1996), In the Shape of a Boar (2000), and John Saturnall’s Feast (2012), the latter about an orphan who becomes the greatest cook of the seventeenth century. Lawrence has won the Somerset Maugham Award and the Budapest Festival Prize for Literature. His books have been translated into 24 languages.

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‘Çay’ by Martin Pevsner, was selected as the 2016 Mogford Prize Winner by Prize founder Jeremy Mogford, and guest judges; Lawrence Norfolk and celebrated chef, writer and broadcaster Rick Stein.

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