Nicholas Shakespeare
Autor/a de Bruce Chatwin
Sobre l'autor
Nicholas William Shakespeare is a British novelist and biographer who was born on March 3, 1957, in Worcester. He attended Winchester College and Magdalene College, Cambridge. He worked as a journalist for BBC Television and later as an arts and literary editor for "The Times". He soon after began mostra'n més his writing career. His first books include The Men Who Would Be king: A Look at Royalty in Exile, Londoners, and The Vision of Elena Silves. His later works include Inheritance, Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin, and Six Minutes in May: How Churchill Unexpectedly Became Prime Minister. (Bowker Author Biography) mostra'n menys
Obres de Nicholas Shakespeare
“Odd Job Man and Language!” 1 exemplars
The Death of Marat (in OX-TALES Earth) 1 exemplars
"Signifying something" in ARB, May 2001 1 exemplars
Obres associades
Etiquetat
Coneixement comú
- Nom normalitzat
- Shakespeare, Nicholas
- Nom oficial
- Shakespeare, Nicholas William Richmond
- Data de naixement
- 1957-03-03
- Gènere
- male
- Nacionalitat
- UK
- Lloc de naixement
- Worcester, Worcestershire, England, UK
- Llocs de residència
- Tasmania, Australia
- Educació
- Magdalene College, Cambridge University (BA|1978)
Winchester College
Dragon School - Professions
- biographer
novelist - Relacions
- Johnson, Gillian (spouse)
- Organitzacions
- All Souls College, Oxford University
Oxfam - Premis i honors
- Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1999)
Granta's Best of Young British Novelists (1993)
Somerset Maugham Award (1989)
Betty Trask Award (1990)
American Library Association Award (1997)
BAFTA Award for Best Documentary (2001) (mostra-les totes 8)
Broadcasting Press Guild Award for Best Documentary (2001)
Tasmania Book Prize (2007)
Membres
Ressenyes
Llistes
Premis
Potser també t'agrada
Autors associats
Estadístiques
- Obres
- 23
- També de
- 19
- Membres
- 1,953
- Popularitat
- #13,173
- Valoració
- 3.9
- Ressenyes
- 49
- ISBN
- 155
- Llengües
- 10
The vision itself is hurriedly explained away in a rather farcical way at the end. At the end of the book, the feeling of hopelessness establishes itself firmly. There is just no redeeming feature to any character stuck beside the river in a town called Belén (Bethlehem).
Aside from this, Nicholas Shakespeare writes well and with intelligence.… (més)