Nick Hornby
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Gender | Male |
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Age | 67 |
Web site | www.nickhornbyofficial.com |
Date of birth | April 17,1957 |
Zodiac sign | Aries |
Born | Redhill |
United Kingdom | |
Spouse | Virginia Bovell |
Amanda Posey | |
Albums | Lonely Avenue |
How to Be Good | |
Mein Leben als Leser | |
Job | Film producer |
Screenwriter | |
Novelist | |
Lyricist | |
Book editor | |
Essayist | |
Education | Desborough College |
Jesus College, University of Cambridge | |
Awards | BAFTA Award for Best British Film |
William Hill Sports Book of the Year | |
E. M. Forster Award | |
WH Smith Literary Award | |
Children | Danny Hornby |
Parents | Derek Hornby |
Margaret Audrey Hornby | |
Siblings | Gill Hornby |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 429677 |
Fever Pitch
About a Boy
A Long Way Down
How to Be Good
Funny Girl
Juliet, Naked
Songbook
Stuff I've Been Reading
Slam
The Polysyllabic Spree
Ten Years in the Tub
Speaking with the Angel
Shakespeare Wrote for Money
More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time
Housekeeping vs. The Dirt
Not a Star
Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues: Twenty Years of Writing About Film, Music and Books (an EBook Original from Riverhead Books)
My Favourite Year
Otherwise pandemonium
Double A- side: Fever Pitch, High Fidelity
Triple Platinum
An Education
Everyone's Reading Bastard
Contemporary American fiction
Pray: Notes on the 2011/2012 Football Season
Da Capo Best Music Writing 2001: The Year's Finest Writing on Rock, Pop, Jazz, Country, and More
Essential Nick Hornby Collection
Tribunefeber
Click
Nick Hornby: Atom Vs. Super Subject
Slam DL
Fan Mail: Twenty Years of Writing about Football
Fan Mail: Twenty Years of Writing About Soccer (an EBook Original from Riverhead Books)
Nick Hornby Life story
Nicholas Peter John Hornby is an English writer and lyricist. He is best known for his memoir Fever Pitch and novels High Fidelity and About a Boy, all of which were adapted into feature films. Hornby's work frequently touches upon music, sport, and the aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.
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Why Anne Tyler not writing about the coronavirus
The author of the bestsellers the Breathing Lessons and The Accidental Tourist
While many of us may be struggling to adjust to staying At Home and avoiding social contacts, Anne Tyler draws it.
"I need to be alone," One of America's greatest living writer, told The Bbc . "I feel worn when I Am in a group for a long time. "
the loneliness is of Central importance for her career, which spans More Than half a century.
"You could almost say I live a quarantined life anyway. "
The author, 78, sold More Than 11 million books, and was Austen compared to Jane.
Nick Hornby , meanwhile, said that she is his favorite writer.
But all of this was achieved with surprisingly little fuss and fanfare. She keeps a Low Profile and rarely interviews or appears on literary festivals.
she says, she knew that her life in The American city of Baltimore would be much changed by the coronavirus pandemic, But that "it's different" now.
"It is very sad to walk through the forest every morning, which is where the students walk to school and not see a single child.
"We should not mix in any way," she adds. "I always have these Two Friends come over for the "wine-therapy", as we call it, and I just cancelled. "
do not expect, However, that The Virus or its effects - to make an appearance in your next novel, or even after. The outside world tends not to interfere in their books.
"It would derail the small, private story, to say The One I Am trying," she explains. "I think it would be really thinking in the wrong direction, if I start to suddenly talk about the Corona Virus in this stage, in One of my books. "
"I'm very much a believer in letting things be old before we write about them. In other words, I've never written about the World Trade Center, you know, and I don't have good books to read about it, to be honest. But I think that in 20 years, you have a good. "
The Accidental Tourist was written with the Oscar-winning Film, 1988overall, Tyler has 23 novels. Almost all of them are in Baltimore, where she lived since 1967.
The Accidental Tourist was made into a Hollywood Film in 1988, with William Hurt , Geena Davis and Kathleen Turner She won the Pulitzer Prize Teach in The Following year, for the Breathe; and A Spool of Blue Thread was on the shortlist for the Booker Prize in the year 2015.
your large topic of the family and in all of her books, she focuses on Ordinary People living unremarkable.
her latest novel, the Redhead From the side of The Road , is no different. It is the story of a middle-aged, the craftsmen, "A Man of habits told" that is stuck in a rut.
she says she feels "comfortable" to write from a male perspective.
"I think it's because I had such a good father and Three Brothers , and two grandfathers, all of which I find out of the heart of love, and I just feel very comfortable, what A Man can think about Something . "
which raises the question of whether it is ever as limits for an author's imagination?
Recently, American dirt, a novel by a white American author, Jeanine Cummins , written from the perspective of Mexican migrants, has sparked a debate about cultural appropriation in literature. Cummins ' publishing canceled her book tour, fear of violence, because the emotions were so high.
Anne Tyler insists to try that Cummins and other authors "have a right".
"the whole point of that was written for me To Live Other Lives . So, of course, I would want to have a whole series of life I've lived. "
But when asked whether it's Something you wouldn't write about it, Tyler, surprisingly, says "Yes".
"I think I would be very presumptuous to, from the point of view of, let's say, an inner-city, African-American, because I think there is so much that I you are wrong.
"I think I would be entitled to do it, if I wanted to, But I think,
I would be laughed out of the literary world of anyone who was black and said, 'Boy, you really messed up", you know?"
Tyler is the oldest of four siblings and did not attend school until the Age Of 11Tyler likes to stick with what she knows best. It has been said that she writes essentially the same book, to explore the lives of middle-class Americans, who always and again and again.
"is It fair," she laughs. "I always say, if I start a book, "this One 's gonna be different'.
"About half way through, I say, 'Oh, damn, it's the same book again and again. '
"But I Am very interested in things, the monotonous, seemingly and sometimes, there are things that mean to you, the more.
"I mean, it's almost a challenge, to have someone, doing the dishes and figuring out Something to say about it, would mean More Than just the dishes. "
she says she can't imagine quit writing, even though "The World is not yet another of my books", and explains the need: "I have no Hobbies. And it really makes me happy to write. So this is what I do, still. "
she even an idea for your next novel"Surprise, surprise. It's about A Family in Baltimore," she laughs.
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