Peter Nichols (writer)

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Peter Brayton Nichols (born August 13, 1950 in England ) is a British writer , single-handed sailor and journalist .

Life

Peter Nichols, the son of an artist, grew up in England and attended boarding schools there. After his parents bought a holiday home on Mallorca in the early 1960s , he spent every summer there with his parents in his youth. There his Francophilia developed , which would last for life.

Before turning to writing, Nichols had been a shepherd in Wales , worked as a copywriter and journalist, written screenplays and spent more than 10 years at sea, some as a captain . He crossed the Atlantic three times in a sailboat.

In the United States, Nichols earned a Master of Fine Arts (MFA) degree from Antioch University in Los Angeles . He taught creative writing as a visiting professor at Georgetown University in Washington and Bowdoin College in Brunswick (Maine) and in France at New York University in Paris (NYU Paris).

In 1997, Nichols began writing. In his works he processed both his own experiences at sea and the maritime experiences of third parties. His novel Voyage to the North Star was nominated for the International DUBLIN Literary Award in 2001. In the same year his work A Voyage For Madmen was on the Golden Globe Race of 1968/69 and Donald Crowhurst on the shortlist of the literary prize William Hill Sports Book of the Year , which is awarded for outstanding publications in the field of sports.

Nichols' novel "Darwin's Captain" about Captain FitzRoy , published in 2004, became an international bestseller and has been translated into many languages. His second novel “The Rocks” (German book title: “Die Sommer mit Lulu”), published in English in 2015 and in German in 2016, is set on Mallorca and has distinct autobiographical features.

Nichols alternates between Europe and the United States.

Publications

English versions
  • Sea Change: Alone Across the Atlantic in a Wooden Boat , Viking Adult, 1997, ISBN 978-0-67087-179-7 . (English)
  • Voyage to the North Star , Avalon Publishing Group, 1999, ISBN 978-0-78670-799-7 . (English)
  • A Voyage For Madmen , Harper, 2001, ISBN 978-0-06019-764-3 . (English)
  • Lodestar , Profile Books, 2003, ISBN 978-1-86197-676-5 . (English)
  • Evolution's Captain: The Tragic Fate of Robert FitzRoy, the Man Who Sailed Charles Darwin Around the World , (Darwin's Captain). Profile Books, 2004, ISBN 978-1-8619-7456-3 . (English)
  • Final Voyage: A Story of Arctic Disaster and One Fateful Whaling Season , GP Putnam's Sons, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-39915-602-1 .
  • Oil & Ice: A Story of Arctic Disaster and the Rise and Fall of America's Last Whaling Dynasty , Penguin Books, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-14311-836-7 . (English)
  • The Rocks (Summer with Lulu), Riverhead Books, 2015, ISBN 978-1-59463-331-7 . (English)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Library of Congress: Nichols, Peter, 1950. In: id.loc.gov. August 13, 1950, accessed March 10, 2018 .
  2. ^ Isabell Costello: Writers on Location - Peter Nichols on Mallorca. January 29, 2015, accessed March 10, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Peter Nichols at Penguin Books , penguin.com, accessed March 10, 2018.
  4. ↑ Love on the Rocks , Interview with Peter Nichols on May 26, 2015, interviewmagazine.com, accessed March 10, 2018.
  5. ↑ Peter Nichols in the catalog of the German National Library. In: portal.dnb.de. Retrieved March 10, 2018 .
  6. ↑ 2001 Longlist - International DUBLIN Literary Award. In: dublinliteraryaward.ie. Accessed March 10, 2018 .
  7. ↑ Peter Nichols on profilebooks.com , accessed June 7, 2016.
  8. ^ William Hill Press Office: Previous Winners. In: archive.li. May 17, 2006, accessed March 10, 2018 .
  9. ↑ Sam Wollaston: Review: A Voyage For Madmen by Peter Nichols. In: theguardian.com. September 20, 2017, accessed March 10, 2018 .
personal data
SURNAME Nichols, Peter
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Nichols, Peter Brayton
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer, single-handed sailor and journalist
DATE OF BIRTH August 13, 1950
PLACE OF BIRTH England