Robert Nye

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Robert Nye (born March 15, 1939 in London , † July 2, 2016 in Cork , Ireland ) was a British writer and poet who has received numerous awards such as the Hawthornden Prize , Guardian Fiction Award and the Cholmondeley Award .

Life

Nye attended schools in Surrey and Essex , left school at the age of 16 and began writing poetry at that age . After his first poems were published in 1961, he became editor of poems for the daily newspaper The Scotsman in 1967 . That year he also published his first novel , Doubtfire , which was followed in 1969 by the book Tales I Told My Mother , a collection of stories inspired by the lives of literary characters.

After he became the poetry editor of the daily newspaper The Times in 1971 , he wrote a number of other novels from the mid- 1970s , with the revision of existing historical or legendary stories becoming the main motif of these works. For Falstaff (1976) he was honored with both the Guardian Fiction Award and the Hawthornden Prize. This was followed by the novels Merlin (1979), Faust. Faust, Being the Historia von D. Johann Fausten dem wietbeschreyten Zauberer und Schwartzkünstler, or History of Dr John Faust the notorious Magician and Necromancer, as written by his familiar servant and disciple Christopher Wagner, now for the first time Englished from the Low German ( 1980), The Voyage of Destiny (1982), The Memoirs of Lord Byron (1989), The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles de Rais (1990) and Mrs Shakespeare (1992).

In his books, Nye explored the iconic power of these characters in the general cultural imagination, from the perspective of marginal characters. His novels combined historically researched knowledge with a coarse humor of the narrator and the ability of a fantasist to conjure up the incomprehensible.

In 2007, Nye was honored with the Society of Authors' Cholmondeley Award . He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

more publishments

  • Juvenilia 1 , 1961
  • Juvenilia 2 , 1963
  • Taliesin , 1966
  • Bee hunter , 1968
  • Beowulf, the bee hunter , 1968
  • Darker ends , 1969
  • Sawney Bean , 1970
  • Wishing Gold , 1970
  • Poor Pumpkin , 1971
  • Agnus dei , 1973
  • Five dreams , 1974
  • The seven deadly sins , 1974
  • Two prayers , 1974
  • Penthesilea (and) Fugue & Sisters , 1976
  • Out of the world and back again , 1977
  • The bird of the golden land , 1982
  • The facts of life , 1983
  • Harry Pay the pirate , 1983
  • A collection of poems 1955-1988 , 1989
  • Beowulf , 1994
in German language

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personal data
SURNAME Nye, Robert
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH March 15, 1939
PLACE OF BIRTH London
DATE OF DEATH 2nd July 2016
Place of death Cork