Charles Palliser

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Charles Palliser (* 11. December 1947 in Boston ) is a born in the US and today in United Kingdom -based novelist . He is the older brother of the author and freelance journalist Marcus Palliser .

Life

Palliser is a New England born American citizen but has lived in the United Kingdom since the age of 3. In 1967 he went to Oxford to study English at the University of Oxford . In 1975 he received the Bachelor of Letters ( B.Litt. ), Which is no longer awarded today, for a dissertation on modern fiction .

From 1974 to 1990, Palliser was a lecturer in English at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow . He was the first editor of The Literary Review when it was founded in 1979. During the spring semester (January to Easter) 1986 he taught creative writing at Rutgers University in New Jersey . In 1990 he gave up his post at the university to become a full-time writer , just as his first novel The Quincunx was becoming an international bestseller.

He published four novels which have been translated into a dozen languages; including French , German , Dutch , Finnish , Spanish , Greek , Japanese , Lithuanian , Polish and Russian .

Palliser has also written for the theater, radio and television. His play Week Nothing went on tour in Scotland in 1980 . His 90-minute radio play The Journal of Simon Owen was commissioned by the BBC and broadcast twice on BBC Radio 4 in June 1982. His short film Obsessions: Writing was broadcast on the BBC and appeared on BBC Publications in 1991. His short radio play Artist with Designs was most recently broadcast on BBC Radio 3 on February 21, 2004 .

Palliser has taught for the Arvon Foundation , Skyros Institute , London University , London Metropolitan University and Middlesex University . In 1997 he was Writer in Residence at the University of Poitiers .

In 1991, The Quincunx was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction of the American Academy of Arts and Letters , which is awarded to the best novel first publications in North America. The Unburied was nominated for the 2001 International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award .

Since 1990 he has written forewords for a Penguin Classics edition of Sherlock Holmes stories, the foreword for a new French translation of Wilkie Collins ' The Moonstone , published by Editions Phebus , and other essays on the 19th century and contemporary fiction. He is a former member of the North London Writers Circle.

Novels

• Quincunx ( The Quincunx : Canongate 1989, and Ballantine 1990, ISBN 0-345-37113-5 )
  • German by Bernhard Robben : Quincunx. The secret of the five roses . Droemer / Knaur, Munich, as paperback 1993, ISBN 3-426-63007-9 .
• The Sensationist : Cape and Ballantine, 1991, ISBN 0-345-37935-7 .
• Betrayals : Cape and Ballantine, 1993
• The Black Cathedral ( The Unburied : Phoenix House and Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1999, ISBN 0-7434-1051-3 )

swell

• Interview with Charles Palliser, December 3, 2008.

Web links

• Charles Palliser on criticism