David Hughes (Author)

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David Hughes (born July 27, 1930 in Alton , Hampshire , † April 11, 2005 in London ) was an English writer and screenwriter .

Life

Born in Alton, Hampshire, Hughes attended Eggar's Grammar School , Alton, and later King's College School at Wimbledon . His father, Fielden Hughes , was the principal of another Wimbledon school and also wrote a number of novels.

David Hughes married the Swedish actress Mai Zetterling in 1958 and worked with her on various films, all of which had a slightly frivolous undertone, and books.

Both divorced in 1976, only to remarry four years later.

His later books included a biographical note on his friend Gerald Durrell , entitled Himself and Other Animals , published in 1977 .

Hughes won the 1985 WH Smith Literary Award for the novel The Pork Butcher and in 1994 the German Youth Literature Award for his picture book Macker .

Works

Novels
  • A Feeling In The Air / US title Man Off Beat (1957)
  • Sealed With a Loving Kiss "(1959)
  • The Horsehair Sofa (1961)
  • The Major (1964)
  • The Man Who Invented Tomorrow (1968), via HG Wells
  • Memories of Dying (1976)
  • A Genoese Fancy (1979)
  • The Imperial German Dinner Service (1983)
  • The Pork Butcher (1984) - filmed as a souvenir (1989)
  • But for Bunter / US title The Joke of the Century (1986)
  • The Little Book (1996)
Film scripts

(with Mai Zetterling ):

Other works
  • A Study of JB Priestley (1958)
  • The Road to Stockholm (1964) a travelogue
  • The Seven Ages of England (1967)
  • The Rosewater Revolution (1971), a socio-cultural analysis
  • Himself and Other Animals (1997)
  • The Lent Jewels (2002), a biography of AC Tait, a 19th century Archbishop of Canterbury
  • The Hack's Tale (2004), an investigation into the origins of journalism

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personal data
SURNAME Hughes, David
BRIEF DESCRIPTION English writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 27, 1930
PLACE OF BIRTH Alton , Hampshire
DATE OF DEATH April 11, 2005
Place of death London