Christopher Nolan (author)

Christopher Nolan ( born September 6, 1965 in Dublin, † February 20, 2009 ) was an Irish writer.

Life

Since its birth in 1965 in Dublin Nolan was spastic and mute; he wrote with the help of a special computer.

At the age of 15 he published a volume of poetry entitled Dam - Burst of Dreams, which was praised by critics and compared to the work of Nolan's compatriots William Butler Yeats and James Joyce. The members of the Irish band U2, who had gone with Nolan on the school, dedicated to him their song Miracle Drug on the album How to Dismantle to Atomic Bomb. Even the title The Wrong Child from the album Green of the band REM was inspired by Nolan.

Nolan's 1987 published autobiography Under the Eye of the Clock ( German Under the eye of the clock ) won the Whitbread Award. From the perspective of an observer, the author describes in detail how he deals with his disability.

At the age of 43 years, the author died as a result of an accident after it had come to him while eating food in the respiratory tract.

Writings

  • Dam - Burst of Dreams. Littlehampton ( United Kingdom ) 1981
  • Torch Light and Lazer Beams (theater piece, together with Michael Scott) 1988
  • Under the eye of the clock. Kiepenheuer and Malevich, Cologne 1989, ISBN 3-462-01973-2
  • The Banyan Tree (novel) 1999 German: Five green fields. Novel. Gate, Dornach 2006, ISBN 978-3-85636-171-6
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