Stephen Gregory (writer)

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Stephen Gregory (* 1952 in Derby ) is a Welsh horror novelist.

Life

Stephen Gregory was born in 1952 in the English Derby. He studied at the University of London and graduated from there. He then worked as a teacher in Wales, Algeria and Sudan. In the early 1980s he went back to Wales where he wrote his first novel. The Cormorant (German = The Death Bird) was published in 1986 and was awarded the prestigious Somerset Maugham Award in 1987 . After the success of his debut novel, he went to Hollywood, where he worked for a year as a screenwriter with director William Friedkin from the Paramount collaborated. However, his script was never realized.

Stephen Gregory has lived with his family in Brunei Darussalam in northern Borneo for around 14 years , where he works as a language teacher.

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His debut novel already deals with the disturbing relationship between a man who is almost obsessed with a bird and the animal whose malice, deviousness and unpredictability are threatening to its owner or its surroundings. Gregory plays through this motif in many variations in his six subsequent novels. "The Cormorant" has been reissued several times - with explanatory prefaces. The 1993 film adaptation by the BBC with Ralph Fiennes in the lead role adheres closely to the novel. The film won two Welsh BAFTA Awards . Of the following six novels, the last, “Plague of Gulls”, has only been published as an e-book.

Works

  • The cormorant . 1986. Reissued in 2013 by Richmond, VA, Valancourt Books. New introduction by the author.
German: The death bird . Munich: Knaur 1990.
  • The Woodwitch . Heinemann 1988. Reissued in 2014 by Valancourt Books, Richmond VA. New introduction by Paul Tremblay.
German: Die Waldhexe. Munich: Knaur 1991.
  • The Blood of Angels . 1993. Reissued in 2015 by Valancourt Books, Richmond, VA. New introduction by Mark Morris.
  • The Perils and Dangers of This Night . London: Virgin books 2008.
  • The Waking that Kills . Oxford: Solaris 2013.
  • Wakening the Crow . Oxford: Solaris 2014.
  • Plague of Gulls . 2015. E-book.

literature

  • Stephen E. Andrews, Duncan Bovis [Eds.]: 100 Must Read Books for Men . London: Black 20018. pp. 60-61. (Bloomsbury Good Reading Guides.) ISBN 978-0-7136-8873-3

filming

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ IMDb
  2. ↑ Author Interview with Stephen Gregory , accessed May 9, 2016.
personal data
SURNAME Gregory, Stephen
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Welsh author
DATE OF BIRTH 1952
PLACE OF BIRTH Derby