Christopher Nolan (Author)
Christopher Nolan (born September 6, 1965 in Dublin , † February 20, 2009 there ) was an Irish writer .
Life
Since his birth in Dublin in 1965, Nolan had been spastically paralyzed and mute; he wrote with the help of a special computer.
At the age of 15 he published a volume of poetry entitled Dam-Burst of Dreams , which was critically acclaimed and compared to the work of Nolan's compatriots William Butler Yeats and James Joyce . The members of the Irish band U2 , who had gone to school with Nolan, dedicated their song Miracle Drug on the album How to Dismantle to Atomic Bomb to him . The title The Wrong Child from the album Green of the band REM was inspired by Nolan.
Nolan's 1987 published autobiography Under the Eye of the Clock (dt. Under the eye of the clock ) won the Whitbread Award . From the perspective of an observer, the author describes in detail how he deals with his handicap.
The author died at the age of 43 as a result of an accident after food got into his respiratory tract while eating.
Fonts
- Dam burst of dreams . Littlehampton (UK) 1981
- Torchlight and Lazer Beams (play; with Michael Scott) 1988
- Under the watch's eye . Kiepenheuer u. Witsch, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-462-01973-2
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The Banyan Tree (novel) 1999
- German: five fields green. Novel . Pforte, Dornach 2006, ISBN 978-3-85636-171-6
Web links
- Literature by and about Christopher Nolan in the catalog of the German National Library
Individual evidence
- ↑ “Irish author Christopher Nolan dies,” Irish Times obituary , February 20, 2009
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nolan, Christopher |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Irish writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | September 6, 1965 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Dublin |
| DATE OF DEATH | February 20, 2009 |
| Place of death | Dublin |