Robert Nye

Robert Nye ( born 1939 in London ) is a British writer and poet, who was awarded with numerous awards including the Hawthornden Prize, the Guardian Fiction Award and the Cholmondeley Award.

Life

Nye attended schools in Surrey and Essex, with 16 years left school and started already in the age of the writing of poems. After 1961 his first poems were published by him in 1967, editor of Poetry at the newspaper The Scotsman. In that year he published with Doubtfire also his first novel, the 1969 book Tales I Told My Mother followed, a collection of stories that were inspired by the lives of literary figures.

After 1971 poetry editor of the daily newspaper The Times, he wrote in the mid- 1970s a number of other novels, with the revision of existing historical or legendary stories to the main motif of these works was. For Falstaff (1976 ), he was honored with both the Guardian Fiction Award and the Hawthornden Prize. This was followed by the novels of Merlin ( 1979), Faust. Faust, Being the Historia von D. Johann Faust the magician wietbeschreyten and Schwartz artist, or History of Dr John Faust the Notorious Magician and Necromancer, as written by his familiar servant and disciple Christopher Wagner, now for the first time Englished from the Low German ( 1980), The Voyage of Destiny (1982 ), The Memoirs of Lord Byron (1989 ), The Life and Death of My Lord Gilles de Rais (1990) and Mrs Shakespeare ( 1992).

In his books Nye explored the iconic power of these characters in the general cultural imagination and indeed from the perspective of marginal figures. Yet his novels linked historically researched knowledge with a bawdy humor of the narrator and the ability of a fantasist to provoke the inconceivable.

2007 Nye was awarded the Cholmondeley Award from the Society of Authors. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.

More Releases

  • Juvenilia 1, 1961
  • Juvenilia 2, 1963
  • Taliesin, 1966
  • Bee hunter, 1968
  • Beowulf, the bee hunter, 1968
  • Darker ends in 1969
  • Sawney Bean, 1970
  • Wishing Gold, 1970
  • Poor Pumpkin, 1971
  • Agnus dei, 1973
  • Five dreams, 1974
  • The seven deadly sins, 1974
  • Two prayers, 1974
  • Penthesilea (and) Fugue & Sisters, 1976
  • Out of the world and back again, in 1977
  • The bird of the golden land, 1982
  • The facts of life, 1983
  • Harry Pay the pirate, 1983
  • A collection of poems 1955-1988, 1989
  • Beowulf, 1994
  • Faust: A fantastic novel, 1985, ISBN 3-404-13025-1
  • Mrs. Shakespeare's collected works, 1999, ISBN 3-462-02821-9
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