Ivo Stourton

Ivo Stourton

Ivo Stourton (born 1982) is the son of journalist and broadcaster Edward Stourton. He was educated at Eton where he was a contemporary and friend of Prince William. Stourton first came into the public eye at 17 when he wrote and starred in "Kassandra", an award winning Edinburgh festival production about the Vietnam war. He studied at Corpus Christi College Cambridge where he achieved a Double 1st in English. In June 2006 he was signed in an illustrious two book deal by publishing giant Random House. His first book, "The Night Climbers" (Doubleday 2007) a fiction novel about a secret society in Cambridge and a group of friends who get involved in art fraud, was published on 4 June 2007. Additionally, "The Night Climbers" was published in the United States by Simon Spotlight Entertainment on September 7th, 2007. (See The Night Climbers of Cambridge)

Stourton began training to be a solicitor with the corporate law firm, Slaughter and May in September 2007.

External links

* [http://www.bookvideos.tv/2007/09/ivo-stourton.html BookVideos.tv video interview with the author about "The Night Climbers"]
* [http://www.booksattransworld.co.uk/catalog/book.htm?command=Search&db=twmain.txt&eqisbndata=038561134X Transworld article]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/departments/generalfiction/story/0,,2042135,00.html#article_continue Observer Article]
* [http://arts.independent.co.uk/books/reviews/article2619226.ece Independent article]
* [http://www.rbooks.co.uk/product.aspx?id=038561134X RBooks article]
* [http://www.lovereading.co.uk/book/2019 Love Reading article]
* [http://www.cambridge-news.co.uk/news/features/2007/04/24/f851d670-7c4c-47e4-a5a2-45b7db3e070d.lpf Cambridge Evening News Article]
* [http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/uk/article1899447.ece Times article]
* [http://www.theampersandagency.co.uk/blog/ Ampersand Agency blog including posts on Ivo Stourton's work]


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