Bruce Chatwin (1940–1989)
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Værker af Bruce Chatwin
Bad trips : de ergste reisverhalen van Bruce Chatwin, Martha Gellhorn, Reinhold Messner, Eric Newby, Redmond O'Hanlon (2000) 14 eksemplarer
Animal style art from East to West [catalogue of an exhibition (1970) — Joint Author. — 10 eksemplarer
Op reis met... — Bidragyder — 6 eksemplarer
Auf und davon nach Timbuktu 4 eksemplarer
Il volga - Sulle orme dello Yeti 3 eksemplarer
O vice-rei de Ajud©Ł 1 eksemplar
L'alternativa nomade. Lettera a Tom Maschler 1 eksemplar
Un colpo di Stato 1 eksemplar
The Novels 1 eksemplar
Porselen Delisi Utz 1 eksemplar
Süddeutsche Zeitung eBibliothek: Die Road Novels: Traumpfade / Apostoloff / Unterwegs nach Bagadag / Treibeis / Die… (2014) 1 eksemplar
Co ja tu taj robię? 1 eksemplar
Bruce Chatwin, der Wanderer 1 eksemplar
Drpor 1 eksemplar
[No title] 1 eksemplar
Chatwin Bruce 1 eksemplar
Associated Works
Korter dan kort de beste kortste verhalen uit de wereldliteratuur (1993) — Bidragyder — 28 eksemplarer
The Company They Kept, Volume Two: Writers on Unforgettable Friendships (2011) — Bidragyder — 21 eksemplarer
On the Black Hill [1988 film] — Original book — 3 eksemplarer
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Almen Viden
- Kanonisk navn
- Chatwin, Bruce
- Juridisk navn
- Chatwin, Charles Bruce
- Fødselsdato
- 1940-05-13
- Dødsdag
- 1989-01-18
- Begravelsessted
- ashes scattered near Kardamyli, Peloponnese, Greece
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- England
UK - Land (til kort)
- UK
- Fødested
- Sheffield, South Yorkshire, England, UK
- Dødssted
- Nice, France
- Dødsårsag
- a fungal infection, Talaromyces marneffei, It is now known as an AIDS-defining illness.
- Bopæl
- Birmingham, England, UK
London, England, UK - Uddannelse
- Marlborough College
University of Edinburgh (no degree) - Erhverv
- art porter
journalist
travel writer
director, Sotheby's - Relationer
- Leigh Fermor, Patrick (friend)
Chanler, Elizabeth (spouse) - Organisationer
- Sotheby's
The Sunday Times - Priser og hædersbevisninger
- E. M. Forster Award (1979)
- Kort biografi
- Bruce Chatwin was born in 1940 in the Shearwood Road nursing home in Sheffield, England, and his first home was his grandparents' house in Dronfield, near Sheffield. His mother, Margharita (née Turnell), had moved back to her parents' home when Chatwin's father, Charles Chatwin, went away to serve with the Royal Naval Reserve.
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- Værker
- 55
- Also by
- 13
- Medlemmer
- 13,207
- Popularitet
- #1,769
- Vurdering
- 3.8
- Anmeldelser
- 278
- ISBN
- 404
- Sprog
- 21
- Udvalgt
- 55
The situation is more complex now - some would say problematic but I'd argue that's going too far. Chatwin's time in Australia was fairly brief, his subjects sometimes ironic or perhaps even outright false (to be fair, he acknowledges this), and his attempt to understand an issue that Australians themselves were still grappling with in the 1980s was always going to be deeply flawed. Still, it has its place in the history, and its rather basic overview of one particular aspect of Aboriginal life - even if it is drawn without any shadow or nuance - is an intriguing viewpoint on Australia from an outsider.… (mere)