Sebastian Faulks

Sebastian Faulks is, to me, one of the bravest writers working in English, because he keeps returning to war and refuses to flinch. His French-set historical novels, especially Birdsong, render the horror of the First World War with a stillness that hits harder than any spectacle. A Cambridge man who came up through journalism, he earned his CBE and Royal Society of Literature fellowship the honest way. What I admire most is the moral seriousness underneath the elegant prose. He treats memory and suffering as sacred material, and reading him always leaves me a little more attentive to history.

Name (English)

Sebastian Faulks

Name (Japanese)

セバスチャン・フォークス

Reading

せばすちゃん・ふぉーくす

Born

April 20, 1953 (age 73)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Taurus / Snake

Origin

Donnington, United Kingdom

Occupation

writer / journalist / novelist / impressionist / broadcaster

University

Emmanuel College

Awards & achievements

• Commander of the Order of the British Empire
• 1994 Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature

• Official sitehttps://www.sebastianfaulks.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sebastian%20Faulks
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q443055

Tags

• writer
• journalist
• novelist

Last updated

2026-06-21

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