Nicholas Shakespeare

Nicholas William Richmond Shakespeare ( born March 3, 1957 in Worcester ) is a British journalist and author.

Life and work

Nicholas Shakespeare was born in 1957 in Worcester, Great Britain, the son of a diplomat, and grew up in the Far East and South America. He studied literature and worked as a journalist for BBC Television and the Times. From 1988 to 1992 he was editor of the Daily Telegraph and Sunday Telegraph.

His time in South America was reflected in his novels The Vision of Elena Silves and The Dancer Upstairs. Other, lesser-known works from this period are The Men Who Would Be King, Londoners and the Pillars of Hercules.

Published in 1999, Shakespeare 's biography of Bruce Chatwin. This was followed by the novels in this one night, Tasmania and storm.

Shakespeare continued to produce various detailed biographies for television, so Evelyn Waugh, Mario Vargas Llosa, Bruce Chatwin and the actor Dirk Bogarde. A film version of The Dancer Upstairs was 2002. Shakespeare wrote the screenplay and directed John Malkovich.

Shakespeare's works put normal people in historical situations, as in the novel The Dancer Upstairs, which deals with the role of Abimael Guzmán, the leader of the Peruvian rebel group Shining Path, or in this one night, the partially during the Cold War in East Germany plays.

1999 Shakespeare member of the Royal Society of Literature.

Works

  • Londoners. 1986
  • The vision of Elena Silves ( The Vision of Elena Silves ). Roman 1989
  • The Pillars of Hercules ( The High Flyer). 1989
  • The Dancer Upstairs ( The Dancer Upstairs ). Roman 1995
  • Bruce Chatwin ( Bruce Chatwin ). Biography 1999
  • In this one night ( Snowleg ). 2004
  • In Tasmania (in Tasmania). 2004
  • Sturm ( Secrets of the Sea ). 2007
  • Priscilla: An odyssey in times of war ( Priscilla: The Hidden Life of an English Woman in Wartime France ). Hoffmann und Campe, Hamburg 2014, ISBN 978-3455503128.

Writings

  • On the trail Guzman. In the search for the leader of Sendero Luminoso. In: Lettre International, LI 02, Autumn 1988.
  • Indians in the holy ice. In: Lettre International, LI 29, Summer 1995.
  • Chatwin's dog. In: Lettre International, LI 50, Autumn 2000.
  • Tracks in the swamp. In: Lettre International, LI 81, Winter 2008.
  • A British Gauguin. The adventurous life of the almost unknown painter Ian Fairweather. In: Lettre International, LI 91, Winter 2010.
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