Peter Ackroyd (1) (1949–)
Auteur de Londres, la biographie
Pour les autres auteurs qui s'appellent Peter Ackroyd, voyez la page de désambigüisation.
A propos de l'auteur
Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. He graduated from Cambridge University and was a Fellow at Yale (1971-1973). A critically acclaimed and versatile writer, Ackroyd began his career while at Yale, publishing two volumes of poetry. He continued writing poetry until he began delving into afficher plus historical fiction with The Great Fire of London (1982). A constant theme in Ackroyd's work is the blending of past, present, and future, often paralleling the two in his biographies and novels. Much of Ackroyd's work explores the lives of celebrated authors such as Dickens, Milton, Eliot, Blake, and More. Ackroyd's approach is unusual, injecting imagined material into traditional biographies. In The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde (1983), his work takes on an autobiographical form in his account of Wilde's final years. He was widely praised for his believable imitation of Wilde's style. He was awarded the British Whitbread Award for biography in 1984 of T.S. Eliot, and the Whitbread Award for fiction in 1985 for his novel Hawksmoor. Ackroyd currently lives in London and publishes one or two books a year. He still considers poetry to be his first love, seeing his novels as an extension of earlier poetic work. (Bowker Author Biography) Peter Ackroyd is the award-winning author of four biographies, most recently the national bestseller "The Life of Thomas More", as well as ten novels, including "Chatterton" & "Hawksmoor". He lives in London, where he is at work on his next book, "London: The Biography. (Publisher Provided) Peter Ackroyd is a bestselling writer of both fiction and nonfiction. He lives in London. (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
Séries
Œuvres de Peter Ackroyd
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors (2011) 1,253 exemplaires
Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo (2016) 340 exemplaires
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee (2018) 253 exemplaires
William Shakespeare Without the Boring Bits 2 exemplaires
The Canterbury Tales 1 exemplaire
Peter Ackroyd 5 Books Collection Set History of England Series Vol 1-5 (Foundation, Tudors, Civil War, Revolution,… (2020) 1 exemplaire
Jack the Ripper and the East End 1 exemplaire
Dickens - (1) Secrets; (2) Blazing Away [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Dickens - (3) Terror to the End [DVD] 1 exemplaire
Charles Dickens (2003): Uncovering the Real Dickens (2002)/ David Copperfield (1999)/ A Christmas Carol (2002) 1 exemplaire
Dickens (dvd) 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
Memoirs of the Extraordinary Life, Works, and Discoveries of Martinus Scriblerus (1741) — Avant-propos, quelques éditions — 193 exemplaires
Londres et les Londoniens en 1875 (Collection Gustave Doré) (1872) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 148 exemplaires
The East End: Four Centuries of London Life (1989) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 42 exemplaires
Method and theory : proceedings of the London 1985 Achaemenid history workshop (1988) — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Ackroyd, Peter
- Nom légal
- Ackroyd, Peter Warwick
- Date de naissance
- 1949-10-05
East Acton, London - Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- UK
- Lieu de naissance
- East Acton, Middlesex, England, UK
- Lieux de résidence
- London, England, UK
- Études
- Clare College, University of Cambridge (MA|1971)
Yale University (Mellon Fellow 1972-1973)
St. Benedict's School, Ealing - Professions
- novelist
biographer
tv writer/presenter
poet
historian
critic - Relations
- Kuhn, Brian (partner)
- Organisations
- The Spectator
The Times - Prix et distinctions
- Mellon Fellow
British Book Award (1991)
Commander, Order of the British Empire (2003)
Fellow, Royal Society of Literature (1984)
James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1998)
Whitbread Prize for Biography (1984) (tout afficher 7)
Foreign Honorary Member, American Academy of Arts and Sciences (2006) - Agent
- Sheil Land Associates Ltd
- Courte biographie
- Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of London Under and the bestselling London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. He has won a number of accolades including the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Somerset Maugham Award. He holds a CBE for services to literature (The Browser).
Membres
Discussions
Group Read: Peter Ackroyd - History of England series à 2015 Category Challenge (Juillet 2018)
1001 Group Read - January, 2013: Hawksmoor à 1001 Books to read before you die (Août 2013)
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 80
- Aussi par
- 19
- Membres
- 28,789
- Popularité
- #698
- Évaluation
- 4.0
- Critiques
- 645
- ISBN
- 733
- Langues
- 25
- Favoris
- 79
Je ne m’y connais pas assez en Oscar Wilde pour pouvoir parler ni de le véracité du propos (c’est-à-dire si la vie de l’auteur est bien rendue), ni si le style aurait pu être celui d’Oscar Wilde (je n’ai pas encore lu De Profundis ou La balade de la geôle de Reading).
Peter Ackroyd nous livre donc sa lecture de la vie d’Oscar Wilde (il a la même que Martin Page dans sa préface de Remarquables Assassinats, qui vient de paraître chez Arléa). Je trouve qu’elle est très intéressante puisqu’elle correspond à un Oscar Wilde qui a cherché à se fuir toute sa vie, un petit garçon effacé et solitaire qui est devenu la coqueluche du Londres fin XIXième siècle pour pouvoir vivre dans ce monde. Peter Ackroyd montre aussi un homme qui sait faire un bilan de sa vie, se rendre compte de ses erreurs, d’un homme lucide sur son époque aussi. Le drame est que finalement il restera prisonnier de son image publique, ses amis ne cherchant jamais à le comprendre.
Finalement, Oscar Wilde devient un personnage touchant alors que dans les romans de Gyles Brandreth le dépeigne comme un personnage diablement intelligent. Maintenant, je vais lire De profundis et le livre sur son procès paru chez Stock et la biographie de Frédéric Ferney. Et voilà comment je fais augmenter ma PAL !… (plus d'informations)