Jonathan Trigell
Jonathan Trigell is a British author. His first novel, entitled Boy A, won the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize 2004, the Waverton Good Read Award and the inaugural World Book Day Prize in 2008.
Jonathan completed an MA in creative writing at Manchester University in 2002. He spent most winters in Alps working in the Ski Industry and now lives in Chamonix, France.
Boy A is the story of a child criminal released into society as an adult. It has obvious and presumably deliberate parallels to the fates of the murderers of James Bulger, although the crime itself differs significantly.
Highly acclaimed critically, Boy A was described by Sarah Waters, Chair of the Judges for the John Llewellyn Rhys Prize, as "a compelling narrative, a beautifully structured piece of writing, and a thought-provoking novel of ideas. It's a wonderful debut."
Trigell's second novel Cham, familiar name of Chamonix , also acquired by Serpent's Tail publishing house, was published in October 2007.
He is currently working on his third novel, Genesis.
“Si ricordava, ai tempi del processo, come tutti quelli che conosceva erano rimasti sconvolti al pensiero di cosa sarebbe stato avere una figlia uccisa in quel modo. Così brutale, insensato, malvagio. Nessuno si era fermato a pensare invece, a cosa sarebbe stato avere un figlio che era l'assassino. E' per questo che i due dovevano per forza essere malvagi, essere diversi: altri, demoni. Non potevano essere quello che un bambino normale sarebbe potuto diventare, nelle stesse circostanze.”