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Charles Bruce Chatwin FRSL (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales.
Sep 7, 2017 · Bruce Chatwin: One of the Last Great Explorers - The New York Times. Forty years after the publication of his groundbreaking travelogue, ‘‘In Patagonia,’’ the author’s writing — and style —...
May 9, 2024 · Bruce Chatwin was a British writer who won international acclaim for books based on his nomadic life. In 1966 Chatwin abandoned a promising career as a director of Impressionist art at the auction firm Sotheby’s in London to study archaeology at the University of Edinburgh.
Aug 26, 2020 · It contained the obituary of a writer named Bruce Chatwin, who, after years of far-flung travels, had reportedly died at 48 of a rare disease picked up on one of his adventures.
Charles Bruce Chatwin was an English novelist and travel writer. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982). In 1972, Chatwin interviewed the 93-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map of the area of South America called Patagonia, which she had painted.
Dec 15, 1996 · LIFE AND LETTERS about late English writer Bruce Chatwin... He started work for Sotheby's in London, in 1958. His first job, that of a porter, was lowly, though not as beefy as the title suggests.
Feb 16, 2021 · NOMAD: IN THE FOOTSTEPS OF BRUCE CHATWIN is now streaming on MUBI US: http://mubi.io/chatwin Werner Herzog’s touching documentary portrait of the late, globetrotting writer Bruce Chatwin is...
Mar 18, 2013 · Chatwin’s legend has also been kept alive by two biographies, Bruce Chatwin by Nicholas Shakespeare and With Chatwin by Susannah Clapp. Shakespeare’s book, at over 550 pages, is exhaustive; it uncovers many personal details that Chatwin carefully hid. It recalls sexual adventures, feuds, and illness with a graphic, unflinching ...
Sep 29, 2020 · “Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin” is a portrait of one of his dear companions and a restless, singular storyteller. Mr Herzog narrates and acts as a guide, weaving together Chatwin’s...
Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield, England. His novel Utz was nominated for the 1988 Booker Prize. Between 1972 and 1975 he worked for the Sunday Times, before announcing his departure in a telegram: ‘Gone to Patagonia for six months.’
