Julian Rathbone

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Julian Rathbone (born February 10, 1935 in Blackheath , London , † February 28, 2008 in Thorney Hill, Hampshire ) was an English writer .

Life

Julian Rathbone studied at Magdalene College in Cambridge , then lived for three years in Turkey , then worked as a teacher at various London schools and finally in Sussex until he went freelance as a writer in 1973, moved to Spain for a few years and finally returned to England.

Work and themes

As an author, Rathbone served a wide range of genres and topics for over 40 years, wrote detective novels , thrillers , historical novels and a monograph on Wellington without being attributed to any particular literary school or school.

Like his great role model Graham Greene , Rathbone also tried to deal with political, social and historical topics on a high literary level with cross-genre books that are located in different countries and crisis areas. From his years in Turkey he knew the poverty, from the English school system the ups and downs of a class society ; Accordingly, the novels of the openly professed left are characterized by a deep distrust of power structures and the upper half of social hierarchies. He is concerned about in the novels ZDT (1986, dt. Green fingers ) and The Pandora option (1990) with the theme, food as a political weapon 'in sand Blind modern with the question of the political and economic backgrounds Wars (1993) - and it is astonishing how clearly and visionary Rathbone has seen and drawn certain political contexts, e.g. B. in his science fiction novel Trajectories (1998), where he presents a nightmarish England of the year 2035. The same applies to his historical novels, such as his last book The Mutiny (2007) about the Indian uprising against British rule in 1857, in which he clearly and without political glasses names questions about responsibility, guilt and consequences.

Rathbone created a number of characters that he had several times in his novels, such as Inspector Jan Argand in three novels from the early 1980s, Renate Fechter, the German head of a criminal investigation unit against environmental crime in two novels from the 1990s, and the private detective Chris Shovelin in two of his last books.

Awards and nominations

Novels

  • 1967 Diamonds Bid
    • For a handful of diamonds , German by Rosmarie Kahn-Ackermann, Munich: Desch, 1971, ISBN 3-420-00531-8
  • 1968 hand out
    • The secret order , German by Rosmarie Kahn-Ackermann, Munich: Desch, 1971, ISBN 3-420-00521-0
  • 1969 With My Knives I Know I'm Good
    • The knife thrower , German by Christine Penitzka, Munich: Desch, 1970, ISBN 3-420-00509-1
  • 1972 Trip Trap
    • The secret of the bronze statues , German by Rosmarie Kahn-Ackermann, Munich: Desch, 1972, ISBN 3-420-00604-7
  • 1975 Kill Cure
  • 1975 Bloody Marvelous
  • 1976 King Fisher Lives
  • 1976 ¡Carnival!
  • 1977 A raving monarchist
  • 1978 The Princess A Nun! (Rathbone only wrote the last third, completing Hugh Ross Williamson's novel)
  • 1979 Joseph
  • 1979 The Euro-Killers
  • 1980 A Last Resort
  • 1981 base case
  • 1982 A Spy of the Old School
  • 1983 Watching the Detectives
  • 1984 Nasty, Very
  • 1985 Lying in State
  • 1986 ZDT
  • 1988 The Crystal Contract
  • 1990 The Pandora Option
  • 1991 Dangerous Games
  • 1993 Sand Blind
  • 1995 Accidents Will Happen
  • 1995 Intimacy
    • Querubín or the last castrato , German by Michaela Grabinger, Hamburg: Europa-Verlag, 2004, ISBN 3-203-81601-6
  • 1997 Blame Hitler
  • 1997 The Last English King
    • The last English king , German by Sophie Kreutzfeldt, Munich: dtv, 2003, ISBN 3-423-24339-2
  • 1998 Brandenburg Concerto
  • 1998 Trajectories
  • 2000 Kings of Albion
    • The kings of Albion or the adventurous journey of an Indian prince to England at the time of the Wars of the Roses , German by Karin Dufner, Hamburg: Europa-Verlag, 2003, ISBN 3-203-81600-8
  • 2001 homage
  • 2002 A Very English Agent
    • The Spy from Waterloo , German by Michael Haupt, Hamburg: Europa, 2004, ISBN 3-203-81602-4
  • 2003 As Bad as it Gets
  • 2004 Birth Of A Nation
  • 2007 The Mutiny

Non-fiction

  • 1984 Wellington's War

filming

Web links

personal data
SURNAME Rathbone, Julian
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH February 10, 1935
PLACE OF BIRTH London Borough of Lewisham
DATE OF DEATH February 28, 2008
Place of death Thorney Hill - Hampshire