Tim Pears
Tim Pears (born November 15, 1956 in Tunbridge Wells , Kent ) is a British writer who received the Hawthornden Prize in 1994 .
Life
Pears left school at the age of 16 and then worked as a bookseller, construction worker, nurse in a mental hospital , bodyguard of a pianist, painter, decorator, mail sorter, filmmaker, night watchman in a college and manager of an art gallery.
Pears later studied at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield , graduating in 1993.
In the same year his debut novel In the Place of Fallen Leaves was released , for which he was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1994 and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award. The book is about country life and youth relations with older generations in Great Britain in 1984.
His second novel In a Land of Plenty (1997) was adapted for the BBC television program and first broadcast in 2001 as a ten-part television series . In it, Pears tells the story of an entrepreneurial family in a small English town from 1952 to 1992.
His novel A Revolution of the Sun , published in 2000, interwoven the stories of seven dissimilar people whose lives changed irrevocably within a year, for example due to the pregnancy of a young woman in London. Wake Up (2002) is the story of genetic engineering and the dream of two brothers who run a greengrocer's shop about edible vaccines.
Most recently Pears, who lives in Oxford , published the novels Blenheim Orchard (2007) and Disputed Land (2011).
Works
- in German language
- Land of Plenty , original title In a Land of Plenty , 1998, ISBN 3-7645-0030-1
- The colors of a summer , original title In the Place of Fallen Leaves , 1999, ISBN 3-7645-0067-0
- Der Lauf der Sonne , original title A Revolution of the Sun , 2001, ISBN 3-7645-0097-2
- Wach auf , original title Wake up , 2004, ISBN 3-8270-0520-5
Web links
- Literature by and about Tim Pears in the catalog of the German National Library
- Private homepage
- Biography and Bibliography (contemporarywriters.com)
- Short biography and reviews of works by Tim Pears at perlentaucher.de
Individual evidence
- ↑ The Guardian: Disputed land by Tim Pears - review. A well-observed story of a troubled family is let down by the awkwardness of its setting (book review, March 6, 2011)
- ↑ Book Description (buechertreff.de)
- ↑ Book Description (buechereule.de)
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Pears, Tim |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | November 15, 1956 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Tunbridge Wells , Kent |