Tim Pears

Tim Pears (* November 15, 1956 in Tunbridge Wells, Kent ) is a British writer who was awarded the Hawthornden Prize in 1994.

Life

Pears left with 16 years of school and then worked among other things as a bookseller, a construction worker, a nurse in a psychiatric hospital, bodyguard of a pianist, painter, decorator, letter sorter, filmmakers, night watchman in a college and manager of an art gallery.

Later Pears studied at the National Film and Television School in Beaconsfield and graduated in 1993.

In the same year he published his first novel, In the Place of Fallen Leaves, for which he was in 1994 awarded the Hawthornden Prize and the Ruth Hadden Memorial Award. The book is about the country life and the relationship of youth to older generations in the UK of 1984.

His second novel, In a Land of Plenty (1997) was adapted for television by the BBC and broadcast in 2001 as a ten -part television series for the first time. In it, Pears the story of a family business in a small English town in the years dar. 1952-1992

His published in 2000 novel, A Revolution of the Sun wove the stories of seven disparate people together, their lives irrevocably changed within one year, for example, the pregnancy of a young woman in London. Wake Up ( 2002) is the story of genetic engineering and the dream of two brothers who runs a vegetable shop, edible vaccines.

Last published Pears, who lives in Oxford, the novels Blenheim Orchard ( 2007) and Disputed Country ( 2011).

Publications

• Land of plenty, Original Items In a Land of Plenty, 1998, ISBN 3-7645-0030-1
• The course of the sun, original title A Revolution of the Sun, 2001, ISBN 3-7645-0097-2
• Wake up, Wake up the original title, 2004, ISBN 3-8270-0520-5