Charles Palliser

Charles Palliser ( born December 11, 1947) is an in Boston (Massachusetts / USA) born today in the United Kingdom and established novelist. He is the older brother of the later author and freelance journalist Marcus Palliser.

Life

Palliser is a New England -born American citizen, but since the age of 3 years living in the United Kingdom. In 1967 he went to Oxford at the University of Oxford to study English literature. In 1975 he received the Bachelor of Letters ( B.Litt. ), Which is no longer awarded today, for a thesis on contemporary fiction.

From 1974 to 1990 Palliser lecturer of the department was English at the University of Strathclyde in Glasgow. He was the first editor of the publication The Literary Review was founded as such in 1979. During the spring semester (January to Easter) in 1986, he taught creative writing at Rutgers University in New Jersey. In 1990 he resigned his post at the university for full-time to be a writer, just as his first novel, The Quincunx became an international bestseller.

He has published four novels, which have been translated into a dozen languages; including French, German, Dutch, Finnish, Spanish, Greek, Japanese, Lithuanian, Polish and Russian.

Palliser has also written for the theater, radio and television. His stage play Week Nothing went on tour in 1980 in Scotland. His 90-minute radio play The Journal of Simon Owen was commissioned by BBC commissioned and broadcast by BBC Radio 4 in June 1982 twice. His short film Obsessions: Writing was broadcast by the BBC and published in 1991 by BBC Publications. Recently went on 21 February 2004, his short radio drama artist with designs on BBC Radio 3 broadcast.

Palliser taught sometimes for the Arvon Foundation, the Skyros Institute, London University, London Metropolitan University and Middlesex University. In 1997 he was writer -in-residence at the University of Poitiers.

1991 The Quincunx was awarded the Sue Kaufman Prize for First Fiction from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, which is awarded to the best Romanerstveröffentlichungen North America. The Unburied was nominated in 2001 for the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award.

Since 1990, he wrote prefaces for a Penguin Classics edition of Sherlock Holmes stories, the foreword for a new French translation of Wilkie Collins ' The Moonstone, which was published by Editions Phebus, and other essays on the 19th century and contemporary fiction. He is a former member of the North London Writers circle.

Novels

• Quincunx (The Quincunx: Canongate, 1989, and Ballantine, 1990, ISBN 0-345-37113-5 ) German by Bernhard Robben: Quincunx. The mystery of the five roses. Droemer / Knaur, Munich, paperback 1993, ISBN 3-426-63007-9.

Swell

• Interview with Charles Palliser December 3, 2008.