Bernard Cornwell

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Bernard Cornwell

Bernard Cornwell , OBE (born February 23, 1944 in London ) is a British writer, best known for the novel series about Richard Sharpe, which is set at the time of the Napoleonic Wars and from 1993 as a 16-part TV series with Sean Bean in the Main role was filmed.

Life

His father was a Canadian aviator and his mother was with the Women's Auxiliary Air Force . He was given up for adoption and raised with a family of Christian fundamentalists in Essex , whose last name he was given as Wiggins . After leaving the family, he took his mother's maiden name: Cornwell .

Cornwell studied history at London University , worked as a teacher and then went to the BBC . There he worked for ten years in the television department. In Belfast he met his current wife Judy, an American. In 1980 the couple emigrated to the USA , to Cape Cod . There Cornwell was refused the green card that would have allowed him to pursue a profession. So he began to write novels again under the name of Bernard Cornwell, as he did not need a work permit.

Cornwell's literary breakthrough came with the adventures of Richard Sharpe, a British soldier in the Napoleonic Wars . This series now comprises over twenty books. Some of the novels were implemented in several television films with Sean Bean as Richard Sharpe (German title: Die Schärschützen ). In addition, he wrote other series of novels as well as individual novels with largely historical content, including the Hundred Years War , the American Civil War and England at the time of Alfred the Great . He wrote two series of novels together with his wife under another pseudonym . In 2003 he had his official name changed back to Cornwell.

In 2006 he was appointed Officer of the Order of the British Empire by Queen Elizabeth II of Great Britain .

Works

The Sharpe novels

The Sharpe series covers the adventures of Richard Sharpe, an English soldier, during the Napoleonic Wars. Sharpe's Tiger , Sharpe's Triumph and Sharpe's Fortress are set in India , where the British Army, under the command of Wellington, is waging war against the Marathas . The following (chronologically) volumes deal with some fictional, but for the most part historical, theaters of war of the Napoleonic Wars on the Iberian Peninsula .

The books are sorted in chronological order of the plot, not by appearance. The year of the action is prefixed in square brackets.

  • [1799] Sharpe's Tiger , 1997 German Sharpe's Trial by Fire , 2008
  • [1803] Sharpe's Triumph , 1998 German Sharpe's victory , 2009
  • [1803] Sharpe's Fortress , 1999 German Sharpe's fortress , 2009
  • [1805] Sharpe's Trafalgar , 2000 German Sharpes Trafalgar , 2009
  • [1807] Sharpe's Prey , 2001 dt. Sharpe's prey , 2010
  • [1809] Sharpe's Rifles , 1988 German Sharp's Rise , 1990 (new edition: Sharpe's Rise , 2011)
  • [1809] Sharpe's Havoc , 2003 German Sharpe's Mission , 2011
  • [1809] Sharpe's Eagle , 1981 German Sharps Trophy , 1990 (new edition: Sharpes Trophy , 2012)
  • [1810] Sharpe's Gold , 1981 German Sharps Gold , 1990 (new edition: Sharpes Gold , 2012)
  • [1810] Sharpe's Escape , 2004 dt. Sharpe's Escape , 2012
  • [1811] Sharpe's Fury , 2006 German Sharpe's Wrath , 2013
  • [1811] Sharpe's Battle , 1995 German Sharpe's battle , 2014
  • [1812] Sharpe's Company , 1982 German Sharp's rivals , 1990 (new edition: Sharpe's rivals , 2014)
  • [1812] Sharpe's Sword , 1983 German Sharp's sword , 1990 (new edition: Sharpe's sword , 2014)
  • [1812] Sharpe's Skirmish , 2002 German Sharpe's Adventure , 2014
  • [1812] Sharpe's Enemy , 1984 German Sharps Feind , 1990 (new edition: Sharpes Feind , 2015)
  • [1813] Sharpe's Honor , 1985 German Sharp's Honor , 1991 (new edition: Sharpe's Honor, 2015)
  • [1813] Sharpe's Regiment , 1986 German Sharp's Secret , 1991 (new edition: Sharpe's Secret , 2016)
  • [1813] Sharpe's Christmas , 2003 German Sharpe's Christmas , 2012 (short story, in a book with Sharpe's ransom )
  • [1814] Sharpe's Siege , 1987 German Sharps Triumph , 1991 (new edition: Sharpes Triumph , 2016)
  • [1814] Sharpe's Revenge , 1989 German Sharps Rache , 1991 (new edition: Sharpes Rache , 2017)
  • [1815] Sharpe's Waterloo , 1990 German Sharps Waterloo , 1991 (new edition: Sharpes Waterloo , 2018)
  • [1815] Sharpe's Ransom , 2003 German Sharpe's ransom , 2012 (short story, in a book with Sharpe's Christmas )
  • [1820] Sharpe's Devil , 1992 German Sharpe's Devil , 2018

The thriller

  • Wildtrack , 1988 German death yacht , 1992 (new edition: Hart am Wind , 2018 - paperback)
  • Sea Lord , 1989 German The Lord Must Die , 1994 (New edition: Sea Lord , 2017 - ebook)
  • Crackdown , 1990 German Snow in the Caribbean , 1995 (New edition: Sturmbucht , 2017 - ebook)
  • Stormchild , 1991
  • Scoundrel , 1992 German The Rogue , 1996 (New edition: Unter Segeln , 2017 - ebook)

The Starbuck Chronicles

  1. Rebel , 1993 German Starbuck The Rebel , 2013
  2. Copperhead , 1994 German Starbuck The Traitor , 2013
  3. Battle Flag , 1995 German Starbuck The Opponent , 2015
  4. The Bloody Ground , 1996 German Starbuck The Fighter , 2015

The Arthur Books (The Warlord Chronicles) / The Arthurian Chronicles

  1. The Winter King , 1995 German The Winter King , 1996
  2. Enemy of God , 1996 German The Shadow Prince , 1997
  3. Excalibur , 1997 German Arthur's last oath , 2000

The Grail Quest / The Grail Quest

  1. Harlequin (in the new edition The Archer's Tale: Book One of the Grail Quest ), 2000 German The Archer , 2004
  2. Vagabond , 2002 German The Wanderer , 2006
  3. Heretic , 2003 German The Arch Enemy , 2007
  4. 1356 , 2012 German 1356 , 2014

The Saxon Stories / The Uhtred Saga

The Uhtred saga was implemented as a television series titled The Last Kingdom and launched first on BBC America in October 2015 and shortly thereafter on BBC Two . The series has been offered by Netflix via streaming in Germany since December 2015 .

  1. The Last Kingdom , 2004 German The Last Kingdom , 2007
  2. The Pale Horseman , 2005 German The White Rider , 2007
  3. The Lords of the North , 2006 The Lords of the North , 2008
  4. Sword Song , 2007 German sword song , 2008
  5. The Burning Land , 2009 German The Burning Land , 2010
  6. Death of Kings , 2011 German The dying King , 2012
  7. The Pagan Lord , 2013 German The Gentile Prince , 2014
  8. The Empty Throne , 2014 German The Empty Throne , 2015
  9. Warriors of the Storm , 2015 German The Dark Warriors , 2016
  10. The Flame Bearer , 2016 German Der Flammenträger , 2017
  11. War of the Wolf , 2018 dt. Wolf War , 2019
  12. Sword of Kings, 2019 German The King's Sword 15.09.2020

The first three volumes are also in the slipcase The Last Kingdom. The original novels for the television series are available.

Others

  • A Crowning Mercy , 1983 German The witch amulet , 2008
  • Fallen Angels , 1984 German The Dark Angels , 2008
  • Redcoat , 1987 German red coats , 1992
  • Stonehenge, 2000 BC , 1999 German Stonehenge , 2000
  • Gallows Thief , 2001 German The Gallows Period , 2003 (alternatively German Galgendieb , 2018)
  • Azincourt , 2008 German The Sign of Victory , 2009
  • The Fort , 2010 German Das Fort , 2011
  • Waterloo: the history of four days, three armies, and three battles , 2014, German Waterloo: One battle changes Europe , 2015
  • Fools and Mortals , 2017 German fools and mortals , 2018

Cornwell wrote A Crowning Mercy and Fallen Angels with his wife. Both books were published under her pseudonym Susannah Kells. Only in the new publications in 2003 and 2005 was Bernard Cornwell named as the author, in the third joint book Coat of Arms (1986), German Das Erbe der Väter (1989), again not.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ The Sharpe Films | Bernard Cornwell. Retrieved November 29, 2017 .
  2. ↑ http://d-nb.info/1145063128
  3. ↑ http://d-nb.info/1140761021
  4. ↑ http://d-nb.info/1142920399
  5. ↑ http://d-nb.info/1147380856
  6. ↑ http://d-nb.info/1171458827
  7. ↑ http://d-nb.info/1147700486
personal data
SURNAME Cornwell, Bernard
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 23, 1944
PLACE OF BIRTH London , England