Bruce Chatwin | Bruce Chatwin

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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...

Bruce Chatwin | Bruce Chatwin

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