Jonathan Keates

Jonathan Keates FRSL (born November 7, 1946 in Paris ) is a British writer who was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1983 .

Life

After visiting the Bryanston School and studying at Magdalen College of the University of Oxford , he was English teacher at the City of London School.

At the end of the 1970s, he began his writing career as an author of history books and over the years wrote several highly regarded biographies about personalities such as Georg Friedrich Handel , Henry Purcell and Stendhal , but also travelogues about Italy .

For his collection of short stories Allegro Postillions (1983) he was awarded not only the Hawthornden Prize in 1983, but also the James Tait Black Memorial Prize . After the novel The Stranger's Gallery (1987) and the short story collection Soon to Be a Major Motion Picture (1997), the novel Smile Please (2000), a comedy in gay society, was released.

Keates is also a regular contributor to a number of newspapers and magazines including The Observer and The Times Literary Supplement . Most recently, the non-fiction book The Siege of Venice was published in 2005 , in which he presented the rebellion of Venice as Repubblica di San Marco against the supremacy of Austria .

more publishments

• Historic London , co-author Angelo Hornak, 1979
• Leeds Castle: An Illustrated Guide , co-author Angelo Hornak, 1979
• The Companion Guide to Shakespeare Country , 1979
• Canterbury Cathedral , 1980
• The Love of Italy , 1980
• Drawings and Sketches of Oxford by William Bird , 1983
• Handel: The Man and His Music , 1985
• Tuscany , Charlie Waite photographs, 1988
• Italian Journeys , 1991
• Umbria , Joe Cornish photographs, 1991
• Stendhal , 1994
• Venice , 1994
• Purcell: A Biography , 1995
• William III & Mary II Partners in Revolution, 2015
• Short Stories , 2001

in German language

• Canterbury Cathedral , title Canterbury Cathedral , 1980, ISBN 3-7845-6170-5
• Italy , original title The Love of Italy , 1981, ISBN 3-517-00749-8
• Georg Friedrich Händel , original title Handel: The Man and his Music , 1995, ISBN 2-213-59436-8

Web links

• Literature by and about Jonathan Keates in the catalog of the German National Library
• Biography and Bibliography (contemporarywriters.com)
• Author portrait (nottinghilleditions.com)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ THE TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT: Foreigners in Florence. The City of the Lily in the late nineteenth century and the expatriates in search of Arcadia who settled there (book review, June 3, 2009)
2. ^ THE INDEPENDENT: Handel: the man and his music, By Jonathan Keates. Guide to the art of a composer hits the high notes (book review, August 14, 2008)