Donald Michael Thomas was an award winning British poet, translator, novelist, editor, biographer and playwright best known for work like Dreaming in Bronze which earned him a Cholmondeley Award. Thomas briefly served in the military from 1953 to 1955. After his discharge he attended New College, Oxford, where he graduated with First Class Honours in English in 1958. He then found work teaching at Teignmouth Grammar School before moving to lecturer English at Hereford College of Education in 1... moreDonald Michael Thomas was an award winning British poet, translator, novelist, editor, biographer and playwright best known for work like Dreaming in Bronze which earned him a Cholmondeley Award. Thomas briefly served in the military from 1953 to 1955. After his discharge he attended New College, Oxford, where he graduated with First Class Honours in English in 1958. He then found work teaching at Teignmouth Grammar School before moving to lecturer English at Hereford College of Education in 1963 to 1978. His first published work was a short story in The Isis Magazine in 1959 and his first published novel was The Flute-Player. From then on he published numerous poems and novels winning awards for some of his work. Some of the awards won by Thomas include Cholmondeley Award for Dreaming in Bronze, The White Hotel book won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature, P.E.N. Prize and Booker Prize and Orwell Prize, for Alexander Solzhenitsyn: a Century in His Life. His work has been translated into 30 languages.
