{{Short description|English writer}} {{Use British English|date=April 2013}} {{Use dmy dates|date=June 2023}}
{{Infobox writer |name = Gavin Extence |image = |imagesize = |caption = |pseudonym = |birth_date = {{birth year and age|1982}} |birth_place = Swineshead, Lincolnshire, England |death_date = |death_place = |occupation = Writer |nationality = English |genre = Novels |movement = |awards = Waterstones 11 (2013) |influences = |influenced = |website = }} '''Gavin Extence''' (born 1982) is an English writer. Extence won the Waterstones 11 literary prize for his first book ''The Universe Versus Alex Woods'' (2013). He has a PhD in Film studies, is married, has a daughter and is also a keen chess player.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.hodder.co.uk/Authors/Gavin+Extence.page |title=Gavin Extence |work=Hodder & Stoughton |accessdate=14 June 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140529055409/https://www.hodder.co.uk/Authors/Gavin+Extence.page |archive-date=29 May 2014 |url-status=dead }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.foyles.co.uk/gavin-extence |title=Interview with Gavin Extence |work=Foyles |accessdate=14 June 2017}}</ref>
''The Universe Versus Alex Woods'' is Extence's début novel and is "the everyday tale of a teenage science nerd hit by a meteorite who strikes up a friendship with a pot-smoking Vietnam veteran".<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/jan/06/rising-star-gavin-extence-novel |title=Rising Star, Interview with Gavin Extence |first=Emma |last=John |newspaper=The Observer |date=6 January 2013 |accessdate=14 June 2017}}</ref> It is the story of wilful teenager Alex, who acquires a fascination with science and astronomy after being struck by a falling meteorite and going into a coma. After recovering, Alex forms an unusual friendship with an aged, dope-smoking Vietnam veteran, the reclusive Mr. Peterson, who is a dedicated aficionado of Kurt Vonnegut.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/17/universe-alex-woods-extence-review |first=Alexander |last=Larman |title=The Universe Versus Alex Woods by Gavin Extence – review |newspaper=The Observer |date=17 February 2013 |accessdate=8 April 2013}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.alexwoodsbook.co.uk/author.html |title=The Universe Versus Alex Woods |work=Hodder & Stoughton |accessdate=14 June 2017 |archive-date=24 February 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140224135414/http://www.alexwoodsbook.co.uk/author.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>
His second book ''The Mirror World of Melody Black'' was released in 2015 and follows a young girl's descent into mental illness.
En 2023, il écrit ''Finding Phoebe'' le quotidien du jeune fille diagnostiqué autiste qui aime sa routine mais aui va devoir sortir de sa zone de confort pour aider sa meilleure amie en grande détresse. Il ''"parle d'amour, d'acceptation de soi et des autres et du passage à l'âge adulte".'' Extence a écrit ce livre pour sa fille.
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==External links== *[https://web.archive.org/web/20140529055409/https://www.hodder.co.uk/Authors/Gavin+Extence.page Publisher's website for Gavin Extence] *[https://www.theguardian.com/books/2013/feb/17/universe-alex-woods-extence-review Review of Extence's book], on ''The Observer'' of 17 February 2013.
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