Bruce Chatwin (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Nicholas Shakespeare
- First Published: 2000
- Type of Work: Literary biography
- Time of Work: 1940-1989
- Setting: North and South America, Australia, Europe, Asia, and Africa
- Principal Characters: Bruce Chatwin, Charles Chatwin, Margharita Turnell Chatwin, Elizabeth Chandler Chatwin, Francis Wyndham
- Genres: Nonfiction, Biography
- Subjects: 1950’s, 1960’s, 1970’s, North America or North Americans, Africa or Africans, Traveling or travelers, Twentieth century, Authors or writers, Europe or Europeans, Literature, 1940’s, 1980’s, Asia or Asians, AIDS, South America or South Americans, Latin America or Latin Americans, Australia or Australians
- Locales: Africa, Europe, Asia, South America, North America, Australia
Nicholas Shakespeare is a novelist who grew up in the Far East before settling in Tasmania. His novels are The Vision of Elena Silves (1989, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award), The High Flyer (1993, nominated as one of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists of 1993), and The Dancer Upstairs (1995, named American Library Association Best Novel of 1997 after its U.S. publication).
Bruce Chatwin’s What Am I Doing Here (1989) and Anatomy of Restlessness (1996) might well serve as twin epitaphs for his life. As a wanderer and a...
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