About Paul Torday
Lived 1946 – 2013 (aged 67). Paul Torday was a British writer, novelist and businessperson.
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.
Life Born in 1946 in Croxdale, County Durham, north-east England,
Torday's third book, The Girl on the Landing, was published in 2009. This novel deals principally with themes of schizophrenia and racism.
His son Piers Torday is a children's writer.
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Paul Torday was born on 1 August 1946 in County Durham.
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Paul Torday died on 18 December 2013 in Northumberland.
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Paul Torday was a writer, novelist and businessperson.
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