John Fuller

1937–

English poet, novelist and children’s writer, son of the poet Roy Fuller. Born in Ashford, Kent, he studied at New College, Oxford, and was a fellow and tutor at Magdalen College, Oxford, from 1966 to 2002. He ran the Sycamore Press, which issued pamphlets by W. H. Auden and Philip Larkin, and won the Forward Prize for Stones and Fires. His first novel, Flying to Nowhere, a dark fable set in a monastery on a remote Welsh island, won the Whitbread First Novel Award and was shortlisted for the 1983 Booker Prize.

Timeline of John Fuller’s life

Works

• Flying to Nowhere (1983)

Prizes

• Flying to Nowhere — The Booker Prize 1983: Shortlist