Robert Macfarlane (writer)

Robert Macfarlane (born August 15, 1976 in Halam, Nottinghamshire , England ) is an English author .

Life

Macfarlane attended Nottingham High School in Nottingham . He then studied from 1994 to 1997 in Cambridge at Pembroke College , from which he graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA). At Oxford University , Magdalen College , he studied for two years and went to a university in Beijing in the People's Republic of China with a teaching position . He received his PhD from Emmanuel College (Cambridge) in 2000 and was elected a Fellow from the same college a year later .

Since 2003, Macfarlane has written five books, some of which have won awards, on landscapes, nature and hiking, placing him among the ranks of past and present authors who deal with nature, places and descriptions of nature. These include, for example, John Muir , Edward Thomas , the author John McPhee and Rebecca Solnit .

Prizes and awards

• 2003: Guardian First Book Award for Mountains of the Mind
• 2007: Boardman-Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature for The Wild Places
• 2008: Scottish Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award for the same book
• 2008: Grand Pize of the Banff Mountain Film Festival also for The Wild Places
• 2011: Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
• 2012: Shortlist for the Samuel Johnson Prize for The Old Ways
• 2013: Dolman Best Travel Book Award for the same book
• 2019: NDR Kultur non-fiction book award for Im Unterland. A journey of discovery into the world underground

Works

• Mountains of the Mind: A History of a Fascination . Granta Books, London 2003, ISBN 0-375421807 .
  • German: mountains in the head. The story of a fascination . AS-Verlag, Zurich 2005, ISBN 3-909111-15-7 .
• The Wild Places . Granta Books, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-143113935 .
  • German: Map of the wilderness . Translated from the English by Andreas Jandl and Frank Sievers. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2015, ISBN 978-3-95757-101-4 .
• Original Copy: Plagiarism and Originality in Nineteenth-Century . Oxford University Press, Oxford, England 2007, ISBN 978-0-19-929650-7 .
• The Old Ways: A Journey On Foot . London, Penguin Hamish Hamilton 2012, ISBN 978-0-670025114 .
  • German: old ways . Translated from the English by Andreas Jandl and Frank Sievers. Matthes & Seitz, Berlin 2016, ISBN 978-3-95757-243-1 .
• Holloway . Faber & Faber, London 2013, ISBN 978-0571302710 .
• Landmarks . Hamish Hamilton, London 2015, ISBN 978-0-241146538 .
• The Gifts of Reading . Penguin, London 2016, ISBN 978-0241978313 .
• Underland . Hamish Hamilton, London 2019, ISBN 978-0241143803 .
  • German: In the lowlands. A journey of discovery into the world underground . Translated from the English by Andreas Jandl and Frank Sievers. Penguin, Munich 2019, ISBN 978-3-328-60113-5 .

Web links

• Literature by and about Robert Macfarlane in the catalog of the German National Library
• Website of Emmanuel College, Cambridge (engl.)