Tom Holland (writer)

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Tom Holland (* 1968 in Salisbury ) is a British writer .

Life

He studied at the Universities of Cambridge ( Queens' College ) and Oxford , where he earned a bachelor's degree in history and worked on an unfinished dissertation on Lord Byron , who then became the main character in his novel The Vampire instead . Holland's novels often have elements of supernatural and horror; they usually play in the past. Holland has also worked for the BBC radio and has written several non-fiction books on historical subjects, the quality of which is sometimes controversial in the specialist field.

In 2006 Holland (together with Robin Lane Fox ) received the Runciman Award for historical stories for his non-fiction book Persian Fire .

In 2016 he was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature .

Works (selection)

Novels

  • Attis. Allison & Busby, London 1995, ISBN 0-7490-0213-1 (semi-historical novel about Catullus ).
  • The vampyre. The secret history of Lord Byron . Abacus Press, London 2007, ISBN 978-0-349-12046-1 (EA under the title The vampyre. Being the true pilgrimage of George Gordon, Sixth Lord Byron . London 1995).
    • The Vampire. Novel. Ullstein, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-25347-4 (EA Düsseldorf 1996) Translated by Wolfdietrich Müller.
  • Supping with panthers . Abacus Press, London 2000, ISBN 0-349-11363-7 (EA London 1996).
    • The legacy of the vampire. Novel. ECON, Düsseldorf 1997, ISBN 3-612-27201-2 . Translated by Wolfdietrich Müller.
  • Deliver Us from Evil. Abacus Press, London 2000, ISBN 0-349-11361-0 (EA London 1997).
    • The vampire's message. Novel. Econ & List, Munich 1998, ISBN 3-612-27514-3 . Translated by Wolfdietrich Müller.
  • The sleeper in the sands. Little, Brown, London 1998, ISBN 0-316-64480-3 (novel about Howard Carter's discovery of the Tutankhamun grave).
    • The sleeper in the desert. Novel. Ullstein, Munich 2003, ISBN 3-548-25549-3 (EA Munich 1999). Translated by Wolfdietrich Müller.
  • The poison in the blood . Abacus Press, London 2006, ISBN 978-0-349-11964-9 .

Non-fiction

  • Rubicon. The triumph and tragedy of the Roman Republic . Little, Brown, London 2003, ISBN 0-316-86130-8 .
    • The die is cast. The fall of the Roman Republic. List, Berlin 2006, ISBN 3-548-60643-1 (EA Berlin 2004).
    • Rubicon. Triumph and tragedy of the Roman Republic. Translated from the English by Andreas Wittenburg. With an afterword by Uwe Walter. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2015, ISBN 978-3-608-94924-7 (extended new edition)
  • Persian fire. The first world empire and battle for the West. Abacus Press, London 2010, ISBN 978-0-349-11717-1 (EA London 2005; deals with the Xerxes procession 480 BC )
    • Persian fire. A forgotten world empire and the struggle for Europe . Rowohlt-Taschenbuch-Verlag, Reinbek 2011, ISBN 978-3-499-62666-1 (EA under the title Persian Fire. The First World Empire and the Struggle for the West . Stuttgart 2008). Translated by Andreas Wittenberg.
  • Millennium. The End of the World and the Forging of Christendom. Abacus Press, London 2009, ISBN 978-0-349-11972-4 (EA London 2008; deals with the history of Europe around 1000 AD).
    • Millennium. The birth of Europe from the Middle Ages. Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2009, ISBN 978-3-608-94379-5 . Translated by Susanne Held.
  • In the Shadow of the Sword. The battle for global empire and the end of the ancient world . Abacus Press, London 2013, ISBN 978-0-349-12235-9 (EA under the title Shadow of the Sword. Global Empire and the Rise of a New Religion London 2012). For the US domestic market, the title was In the shadow of the Sword. The birth of Islam and the Rise of the global Arab Empire .
    • In the shadow of the sword. Mohammed and the emergence of the Arab world empire. 3rd edition Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2012, ISBN 978-3-608-94380-1 . Translated by Susanne Held.
  • Edward Gibbon 's " Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire " . Continuum Books, London 2013, ISBN 978-1-441-17036-1 .
  • Dynasty. Glory and misery of the Roman emperors from Augustus to Nero . Klett-Cotta, Stuttgart 2016, ISBN 978-3-608-94853-0 .

documentary

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Tom Holland at the Royal Society of Literature , accessed February 14, 2019.
  2. ↑ Wolfgang Schuller : Caesar only blinked . Review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on May 25, 2005.
  3. ↑ Stefan Rebenich : A beacon of the history of freedom? . Review in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on October 13, 2008.
  4. ↑ Urs Hafner: In the penitential garb . Review in the Neue Zürcher Zeitung on October 12, 2009.
  5. ↑ Andreas Kilb: How the heaven of Muhammad came to earth . Review in the Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung on October 3, 2012.

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personal data
SURNAME Holland, Tom
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH 1968
PLACE OF BIRTH Salisbury