In Patagonia

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Beschreibung

<b>Bruce Chatwin</b> was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attending Marlborough School he began work as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later, having become one of Sotheby's youngest directors, he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. Between 1972 and 1975 he worked for the <i>Sunday Times</i>, before announcing his next departure in a telegram: 'Gone to Patagonia for six months.' This trip inspired the first of Chatwin's books, <i>In Patagonia</i>, which won the Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award and launched his writing career. Two of his books have been made into feature films: <i>The Viceroy of Ouidah</i> (retitled <i>Cobra Verde</i>), directed by Werner Herzog, and Andrew Grieve's <i>On the Black Hill</i>. On publication <i>The Songlines</i> went straight to Number 1 in the <i>Sunday Times</i> bestseller list and remained in the top ten for nine months. <i>On the Black Hill</i> won the Whitbread First Novel Award while his novel <i>Utz </i>was nominated for the 1988 Booker Prize. He died in January 1989, aged forty-eight.

Artikeldetails

EAN

9780099769514

Sprache

Englisch

Einband / Art

Taschenbuch

Maße

198 x 130 x 22 mm

Erscheinungsjahr

2004

Verlag / Hersteller

Random House UK Ltd