Nick Harkaway

Nick Harkaway (actually Nicholas Cornwell, born 1972 in Cornwall, England ) is an English writer. He is the fourth son of the author John le Carré. He chose his pseudonym after a series of adventure novels ( Jack Harkaway and his son 's adventures in Australia of Bracebridge Hemyng ).

Nick Harkaway studied philosophy, sociology and politics at Clare College, Cambridge. He then worked in the film industry before moving on to a preliminary fee of £ 300,000 with his much acclaimed first novel The deleted world joined as a writer in Publication 2008. His novel was nominated for a 2009 Locus Award for first novel and for a British Science Fiction Association Award in the category novel. Critics compared it to Kurt Vonnegut and Thomas Pynchon.

On February 2, 2012, his second novel Angelmaker appeared. In the same year, followed by The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World his first non-fiction book.

Harkaway lives with his wife Clare in London.

Works

• The Gone -Away World. Heinemann 2008, dt The deleted world, Piper 2009, ISBN 978-3-492-26704-5
• Angel Maker. Heinemann 2012, ISBN 978-0-434-02094-2, dt The golden swarm, Knaus 2014, ISBN 978-3-8135-0534-4
• The Blind Giant: Being Human in a Digital World. Murray 2012 ISBN 978-1-848-54641-7