Nicholas Shakespeare

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Nicholas Shakespeare is at the Leipzig Book Fair in 2014 his book Priscilla ago

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare (born March 3, 1957 in Worcester ) is a British journalist and author.

life and work

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957 in Worcester, Great Britain , the son of a diplomat and a distant relative of the playwright Williams Shakespeare , and grew up in the Far East and South America. He studied literature and worked as a journalist for BBC Television and the Times . From 1988 to 1992 he was an editor at the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph .

His time in South America was reflected in his novels The Vision of Elena Silves and The Colonel and the Dancer . Other, lesser-known works from this period include The Men Who Would Be King , Londoners, and The Pillars of Hercules .

In 1999 Shakespeare published his biography of Bruce Chatwin (1940-1989). This was followed by the novels In That One Night , In Tasmania and Storm . The magazine Lettre International has published some articles in German translation .

Shakespeare continued to produce various detailed biographies for television, including Evelyn Waugh , Mario Vargas Llosa , Bruce Chatwin and the actor Dirk Bogarde . A film adaptation of The Colonel and the Dancer was made in 2002. Shakespeare wrote the script and John Malkovich directed.

Shakespeare's works put normal people in historical situations, for example in the novel The Colonel and the Dancer , who deals with the role of Abimael Guzmán , the leader of the Peruvian rebel organization Shining Path , or In This One Night , which was partly during the Cold War in the GDR plays. In Priscilla he follows the life of his aunt, who tried to survive as an Englishwoman in the German-occupied Paris.

In 1999 Shakespeare became a member of the Royal Society of Literature .

Works

  • The Men Who Would Be King: A Look at Royalty in Exile . 1984
  • Londoners . 1986
  • The vision of Elena Silves (The Vision of Elena Silves) . Novel 1989
  • The Pillars of Hercules (The High Flyer) . 1989
  • The Colonel and the Dancer (The Dancer Upstairs) . Novel 1995
  • Bruce Chatwin (Bruce Chatwin) . Biography 1999
  • That one night (Snowleg) . 2004
  • In Tasmania (In Tasmania) . 2004
  • Storm (Secrets of the Sea) . 2007
  • The Inheritance (Inheritance) . 2010
  • Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an Englishwoman in Wartime France . Harper Collins, 2014
    • Priscilla: Of love and survival in stormy times . Translation Barbara Christ. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3-455-50312-8
  • Broken Hill ( Oddfellows , 2015). Translated from the English by Georg Deggerich. Hoffmann and Campe, Hamburg 2016, ISBN 978-3-455-40544-6
  • Stories from elsewhere (Stories from Other Places) , Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2018, ISBN 978-3-455-40622-1

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Andrew L. Urban: SHAKESPEARE, NICHOLAS: THE DANCER UPSTAIRS. July 3, 2003, accessed April 22, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Shakespeare, Nicholas
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Shakespeare, Nicholas William Richmond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British journalist and writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 3, 1957
PLACE OF BIRTH Worcester