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Tom Rob Smith
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Tom Rob Smith

Tom Rob Smith was born in l979 to a Swedish mother and an English father and was brought up in London where he still lives. He graduated from Cambridge in 2001 and spent a year in Italy on a creative writing scholarship. Tom has worked as a screenwriter for the past five years, including a six-month stint in Phnom Penh storylining Cambodia's first ever soap. His first novel, CHILD 44, was longlisted for the 2008 Man Booker Prize, shortlisted for the Costa First Novel Award and the inaugural Desmond Elliott Prize, and won the Crime Writers' Association's Ian Fleming Steel Dagger Award for best adventure/thriller novel of 2008, and the American edition won Best Debut at... Read full bio

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Agent 6 will be released on January 19, 2012 in Mass Market Paperback
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Rotten Tomatoes, February 1, 2013
...a back-to-back series of films. This time, the movie is Child 44, an adaptation of a novel by Tom Rob Smith about a member of the Soviet police in the 1950s who finds himself under government suspicion following his investigation of a series of child...
MCN, January 30, 2013
...Tags: Bradley Cooper, Casting, Casting Net, Charlize Theron, Colin Farrell, Jessica Chastain, Movie Biz, Noomi Rapace, Sam Worthington, Tom Hardy, Zac Efron Image Credit: Larry Busacca/ • Warner Bros. has acquired The Man From Primrose Lane with...
MCN, January 30, 2013
...project. I'm intrigued, intrigued enough to give the trilogy of books this is based on a read. Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 trilogy are highly rated and I'm always so out of the loop with recent fiction, especially crime fiction, that if it wasn't for...
TwinCities.com, December 31, 2012
...Plot,' by Jeffrey Eugenides; 'Loving Frank,' by Nancy Horan; 'Cutting for Stone,' by Abraham Verghese; 'Child 44,' by Tom Rob Smith; 'Pope Joan,' by Donna Woolfolk Cross; 'Room,' by Emma Donoghue; 'Still Alice,' by Lisa Genova; 'The Secret Life of Bees,'...
Travelers Today, November 15, 2012
...The Wrap confirmed that Bale met with filmmakers on Tuesday. The movie is based on the novel by Tom Rob Smith and is being written by Richard Price. Like Us on Facebook "At the center of the story is Leo Demidov, a disgraced lawyer in the...
Booktrade - Book2Book, October 18, 2012
...a prestigious award. Some great writers have picked up the Steel Dagger, including Henry Porter, Dan Fesperman and Tom Rob Smith. I'm honoured to have joined their ranks." The CWA John Creasey New Blood Dagger was awarded to Wiley Cash, named the best...
IBNLive India News, September 16, 2012
...include brand new introductions from writers including Giles Foden – Diamonds Are Forever, Sam Bourne – Dr No, Tom Rob Smith – From Russia with Love, Andrew Taylor – Live and Let Die and Alan Judd – Casino Royale. And for those fans of...
Daily Finance, May 6, 2013
...Ballantine Books) Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind (Shaye Areheart Books) Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt) Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing) Ethan Canin's America America (Random House) Mary Ann Shaffer and...
WebWire, May 6, 2013
...Ballantine Books) Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind (Shaye Areheart Books) Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt) Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing) Ethan Canin's America America (Random House) Mary Ann Shaffer and...
Broadway World, May 6, 2013
...Ballantine Books) Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind (Shaye Areheart Books) Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt) Tom RoB Smith's Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing) Ethan Canin's America America (Random House) Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie...
4 Traders, May 6, 2013
...Ballantine Books) Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind (Shaye Areheart Books) Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt) Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing) Ethan Canin's America America (Random House) Mary Ann Shaffer...
4 Traders, May 6, 2013
...Ballantine Books) Chris Bohjalian's The Double Bind (Shaye Areheart Books) Mohsin Hamid's The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt) Tom Rob Smith's Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing) Ethan Canin's America America (Random House) Mary Ann Shaffer...
Rock Hill Herald, May 6, 2013
...NEW YORK Barnes & Noble, Inc. (NYSE: BKS), the leading retailer of content, digital media and educational products, today announced that Charlie Lovett?s novel, The Bookman?s Tale (on sale May 28, 2013) is the latest selection in the Barnes & Noble...
Business Wire, May 6, 2013
...Ballantine Books) Chris Bohjalian’s The Double Bind (Shaye Areheart Books) Mohsin Hamid’s The Reluctant Fundamentalist (Harcourt) Tom Rob Smith’s Child 44 (Grand Central Publishing) Ethan Canin’s America America (Random House) Mary Ann Shaffer...