Charles Nicholl (author)

Charles Nicholl ( born 1950 ) is a British journalist, documentary filmmaker and writer who was awarded both the Dagger Award and the Hawthornden Prize.

Life

After schooling Nicholl studied at King's College, University of Cambridge and was after termination as an English teacher based in London, before he worked as a journalist.

In 1980 his first book, The Chemical Theatre, a concert by the alchemy book, the 1984 biography of the poet, playwright and satirist Thomas Nashe Thomas Nashe with the title, A Cup of News, and then The Fruit Palace (1985 ), a travel report on Colombia followed.

In addition, he was concerned with the so-called Marlowe theory, which attempts to show that the death of William Shakespeare same age contemporary poet genius Christopher Marlowe in 1593 must have been faked. To this end, he wrote in 1992 the book The Reckoning: the Murder of Christopher Marlowe, for which he won in 1992 with the Dagger award for best non-fiction book of crime fiction.

In the book The Creature of the Map (1995 ) is busy Nicholl with the expedition of Walter Raleigh to South America. For his biography of the French poet Arthur Rimbaud entitled Somebody Else: Arthur Rimbaud in Africa, 1880-91 him 1998, the Hawthornden Prize was awarded.

Nicholl, who lives and works in Lucca in Tuscany, also has worked as a documentary filmmaker. After several years of studying the sketchbooks and manuscripts of Leonardo da Vinci, he wrote a biography of da Vinci entitled Leonardo da Vinci: Flights of the Mind ( 2004), which also appeared in German translation. In November 2007, The Lodger has been published Shakespeare on Silver Street.

Publications

  • Meeting Point Café "Fruit Palace ' experiences in Colombia, original title The Fruit Palace, 1990, ISBN 3-499-12582- X
  • In the golden triangle: a trip to Thailand and Burma, original title Borderlines, 1993, ISBN 3-499-13173-0
  • Leonardo da Vinci: the biography, original title Leonardo da Vinci, 2006, ISBN 978-3-10-052405-8
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