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My Take
Marcel Theroux fascinates me because he refuses to stay in one lane. Born in Kampala, shaped on both sides of the Atlantic, Yale-educated, he writes literary fiction and science fiction while also fronting television, and he has won serious prizes in seemingly opposite worlds. The Somerset Maugham Award and a Campbell Memorial Award rarely sit on the same shelf. I am drawn to that border-crossing imagination, the way Far North and Strange Bodies probe identity and survival from genre to genre. Writers who travel between forms tend to see things the specialists miss, and Theroux strikes me as one of them.
Overview
Marcel Raymond Theroux (born 13 June 1968) is an English-American novelist and broadcaster. He has written novels such as The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes: A Paper Chase (2001), A Blow to the Heart (2006), Far North (2009), and Strange Bodies (2013). He won the Somerset Maugham Award for The Confessions of Mycroft Holmes and the John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Strange Bodies.
Summary adapted from Wikipedia, licensed under CC BY-SA 4.0.
1. Profile
- Name (English)
- Marcel Theroux
- Name (Japanese)
- マーセル・セロー
- Reading
- まーせる・せろー
- Born
- June 13, 1968 (age 57)
- Zodiac / Chinese zodiac
- Gemini / Monkey
- Origin
- Kampala, Kampala District, Uganda
- Blood type
- Private
- Height
- Private
- Agency
- Private
- Occupation
- television presenter / novelist / writer / science fiction writer / film director
2. Background
- Elementary school
- Private
- Junior high
- Private
- High school
- Private
- University
- Yale University
Awards & achievements
- 2002 Somerset Maugham Award
- 2014 John W. Campbell Memorial Award for Best Science Fiction Novel
3. Relationships
- Spouse
- Private
- Children
- Private
- Parents
- Private
- Siblings
- Private
4. Personality
Motto
Private
6. Links
- Official sitehttp://www.marceltheroux.com/
- Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AB%E3%83%BB%E3%82%BB%E3%83%AD%E3%83%BC
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7. About this entry
Tags
- Last updated
- 2026-06-02
Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public items are marked "Private / Unknown". English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.