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Alex Michaelides

Дата рождения: September 04, 1977 – Nicosia, Nicosia District, Cyprus

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Alex Michaelides is a Cypriot-British author and screenwriter known for psychological thrillers that blend suspense, trauma, and classical motifs. He rose to international prominence with The Silent Patient, a multimillion-copy bestseller translated widely, and followed it with The Maidens and The Fury, reinforcing his reputation for twist-driven contemporary crime fiction.

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Alex Michaelides is a British-Cypriot novelist and screenwriter whose rise to prominence came through psychological suspense rather than a conventional online-writer path. Born in Cyprus in 1977, he grew up between Greek and English cultural influences, a dual inheritance that later shaped both the classical references and the emotional atmosphere of his fiction. After moving to the United Kingdom, he studied English literature at Trinity College, Cambridge, and then pursued screenwriting at the American Film Institute in Los Angeles. Before his breakthrough as a novelist, he worked in film and television and also spent time in a psychiatric setting, an experience that sharpened his interest in trauma, silence, obsession, and the hidden motives that drive human behavior. Those strands would become central to his fiction.

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Цитаты

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I was going to write the novel that I’d always wanted to write — a detective story, a Hitchcock thriller
-AFI: Alex Michaelides on Writing The Silent Patient
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I procrastinate, then I meditate, then I go to the gym, and then I begin
-Goodreads interview
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I think it’s a really big lesson in perseverance
-Alex Michaelides, THE FURY
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What I know when I meet people is that they’re screwed up and complicated, and that’s my interest
-Infobae interview
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Quite simply, my goal is to entertain
-Newmag interview
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I’m immensely proud of The Fury and had more fun writing it than anything I have written so far
-Celadon Books press release
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I fell in love with writing again with this book
-The Fury Reading Group Guide

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"Alex Michaelides has written one of the best psychological thrillers I have ever read"

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"Alex Michaelides is the grand master of the modern mystery"

Tony Parsons

"In this confident debut, Alex Michaelides mixes the meticulous pacing of an Agatha Christie thriller with the dark tragedy of Greek myth"

Apple Books

"The Silent Patient isn't quiet at all. It loudly announces that Alex Michaelides is a new talent in the field of psychological thrillers"

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"As he proved in his smash-hit The Silent Patient, Alex Michaelides is a master of the unreliable narrator"

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"Alex Michaelides hits the trifecta with his third novel, The Fury"

David Baldacci

"Alex Michaelides’s long-awaited next novel, The Maidens, is finally here...the premise is enticing and the elements irresistible"

The New York Times

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