David Harsent
David Harsent (born December 9, 1942 in Devon ) is a British writer. He also writes under the pseudonyms Jack Curtis and David Lawrence.
Life
David Harsent has published several volumes of poetry. Under the pseudonyms Jack Curtis and David Lawrence he writes detective novels and scripts for television series, including several episodes of the television series Inspector Barnaby . For his poetry he received the Geoffrey Faber Memorial Prize in 1978 for the volume of poetry Dreams of the Dead . The band Legion received the Forward Poetry Prize in 2005 and was shortlisted for the TS Eliot Prize and the Whitbread Award . The collection of poems Fire Songs actually received the TS Eliot Prize in 2014. Harsent also received the Cholmondeley Award in 2008 and the Griffin Poetry Prize in 2012 for Night .
Harsent was friends with literary critic Ian Hamilton . Harsent worked with various composers and created the libretto for Harrison Birtwistle's opera Gawain in 1990 , for The Minotaur in 2008 and for the song Songs from the Same Earth in 2012 .
Harsent is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and an Honorary Research Fellow at Royal Holloway College . He has been a Distinguished Writing Fellow at Sheffield Hallam University since 2005 , where he teaches as a visiting professor. He taught creative writing at Bath Spa University in 2012 and at the University of Roehampton in 2013 .
Harsent is married to actress Julia Watson and they have a daughter who was born in 1990. He lives in Barnes, London .
Works (selection)
- Songs from the same earth . Translation Ludwig Steinherr. Munich: Allitera Verlag, 2019 ISBN 978-3-96233-148-1
- libretto
- Gawain: a libretto (1991)
- The woman and the hare .
- Huw Watkins : In the locked room: opera in one act . 2011-12. Libretto by David Harsent, based on a short story by Thomas Hardy
Web links
- Literature by and about David Harsent in the catalog of the German National Library
- Literature by and about David Harsent in the WorldCat bibliographic database
Individual evidence
- ↑ David Harsent , at SHU
- ↑ David Wroe: David Harsent: A life in writing , in: The Guardian, February 21, 2011
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harsent, David |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Jack Curtis (pseudonym); David Lawrence (pseudonym) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | December 9, 1942 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Devon |