Charles Nicholl

Charles Nicholl (* 1950 ) is a British journalist , documentary filmmaker and writer who has received both the Dagger Award and the Hawthornden Prize .

Life

After attending school, Nicholl studied at King's College at the University of Cambridge and after graduating worked as an English teacher in London before working as a journalist.

In 1980 his first book The Chemical Theater , a book dealing with alchemy , appeared in 1984, a biography of the poet, playwright and satirist Thomas Nashe with the title Thomas Nashe, A Cup of News , and then The Fruit Palace (1985) Travel report about Colombia followed. In addition, he dealt with the so-called Marlowe theory , which tries to show that the death of the contemporary poet genius Christopher Marlowe, who is of the same age as William Shakespeare, must have been faked in 1593. To this end, he wrote the book The Reckoning: the Murder of Christopher Marlowe in 1992, for which he was awarded the Dagger Prize in 1992 for the best non-fiction book in crime fiction .

In the book The Creature of the Map (1995) to Nicholl dealt with the expedition of Walter Raleigh to South America. For his biography about the French poet Arthur Rimbaud with the title Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880−91 he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1998.

Nicholl, who lives and works in Lucca , Tuscany , also works as a documentary filmmaker. After studying Leonardo da Vinci's sketchbooks and manuscripts for several years , he wrote a biography of Leonardo's entitled Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind (2004), which was also published in German. In November 2007, The Lodger: Shakespeare was released on Silver Street .

Publications

• Screaming in the Castle: The Case of Beatrice Cenci . In: London Review of Books , Essay , July 1998, pp. 23-27

in German language

• Meeting point Café "Fruchtpalast": Experiences in Colombia , original title The Fruit Palace , 1990, ISBN 3-499-12582-X
• In the golden triangle: a journey in Thailand and Burma , original title Borderlines , 1993, ISBN 3-499-13173-0
• Leonardo da Vinci: the biography , original title Leonardo da Vinci , 2006, ISBN 978-3-10-052405-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Charles Nicholl in the catalog of the German National Library
• The Independent: Charles Nicholl: Low life, high art (November 2, 2007)
• Author portrait (penguin.co.uk)

Individual evidence

1. ^ The Guardian: Breaking the Da Vinci code (book review, November 27, 2004)
2. ↑ Screaming in the Castle: The Case of Beatrice Cenci (lrb.co.uk)
3. ↑ Northern Thailand: Dangerous Travel Company (book review, ten.de) ( Memento of the original from July 4, 2011 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.