Nick Harkaway
Nick Harkaway (actually Nicholas Cornwell , * 1972 in Cornwall , England ) is an English writer . He is the fourth son of the author John le Carré . He chose his pseudonym after a series of adventure novels ( Jack Harkaway and his son's adventures in Australia by Bracebridge Hemyng ).
Nick Harkaway studied philosophy , sociology and politics at Clare College , Cambridge . He then went on to work in the film industry before writing his first novel, The Erased World, in 2008 for an upfront fee of £ 300,000 . His novel was nominated in 2009 for a Locus Award in the first novel category and for a British Science Fiction Association Award in the novel category. Critics compared him to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon .
His second novel Angelmaker was published on February 2, 2012 . In the same year, The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World, his first non-fictional book, followed.
Harkaway lives in London with his wife Clare .
Works
- The Gone-Away World . Heinemann 2008, German The deleted world , Piper 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-26704-5
- Fishing maker . Heinemann 2012, ISBN 978-0-434-02094-2 , German The Golden Swarm , Knaus 2014, ISBN 978-3-8135-0534-4
- The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World . Murray 2012, ISBN 978-1-848-54641-7
- Tigerman . Heinemann 2015, German Tigerman , Knaus 2015, ISBN 978-3813506709
Web links
- Literature by and about Nick Harkaway in the catalog of the German National Library
- Nick Harkaway in the Internet Speculative Fiction Database (English)
- Works by and about Nick Harkaway at Open Library
- Website of Nick Harkaway (English)
Individual evidence
- ↑ Nick Harkaway: Le Carré with ninjas . Telegraph, June 28, 2008
- ^ BBC Newsnight . June 6, 2008
- ↑ Kung-fu fighting . The Guardian, May 24, 2008
- ↑ The Gone-Away World by Nick Harkaway . The Times, June 6, 2008
- ↑ Nick Harkaway in The LOCUS Index to SF Awards ( Memento of the original from October 16, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ^ 'The Gone-Away World' Author Nick Harkaway on Being Compared to Vonnegut and Life As the World's Worst Ninja . New York Magazine, May 8, 2008
- ↑ Archived copy ( Memento of the original from April 24, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Harkaway, Nick |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Cornwell, Nicholas |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | 1972 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Cornwall |