Paul Theroux
Auteur de Railway Bazaar
A propos de l'auteur
Paul Edward Theroux was born on April 10, 1941 in Medford, Massachusetts and is an acclaimed travel writer. After attending the University of Massachusetts Amherst he joined the Peace Corps and taught in Malawi from 1963 to 1965. He also taught in Uganda at Makerere University and in Singapore at afficher plus the University of Singapore. Although Theroux has also written travel books in general and about various modes of transport, his name is synonymous with the literature of train travel. Theroux's 1975 best-seller, The Great Railway Bazaar, takes the reader through Asia, while his second book about train travel, The Old Patagonian Express (1979), describes his trip from Boston to the tip of South America. His third contribution to the railway travel genre, Riding the Iron Rooster: By Train Through China, won the Thomas Cook Prize for best literary travel book in 1989. His literary output also includes novels, books for children, short stories, articles, and poetry. His novels include Picture Palace (1978), which won the Whitbread Award and The Mosquito Coast (1981), which won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. Theroux is a fellow of both the British Royal Society of Literature and the Royal Geographic Society. His title Lower River made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2012. Currently his 2015 book, Deep South , is a bestseller. (Bowker Author Biography) Paul Theroux is the distinguished author of numerous award-winning books, including "The Mosquito Coast," "Kowloon Tong," & "Half Moon Street." (Publisher Provided) afficher moins
Crédit image: Photographed at BookPeople in Austin, Texas by Frank Arnold
Œuvres de Paul Theroux
Ghost Train to the Eastern Star: On the Tracks of the Great Railway Bazaar (2008) 1,071 exemplaires, 35 critiques
The Best American Travel Writing 2001 (2001) — Directeur de publication — 238 exemplaires, 1 critique
Riding the Rails with Paul Theroux: The Great Railway Bazaar, The Old Patagonian Express, and Ghost Train to the… (2018) 21 exemplaires
The Cold World 10 exemplaires
Action 3 exemplaires
Malawi: Faces of a Quiet Land 2 exemplaires
Under the Spell of the Trobriand Islands 1 exemplaire
Atlas 8 - Leven en liefdes in Londen 1 exemplaire
China Passage 1 exemplaire
Warm Dogs (in Telling Tales - GORDIMER) 1 exemplaire
Leper Colony 1 exemplaire
A Game of Dice 1 exemplaire
The Wicked Coast 1 exemplaire
Introduction to " The Secret Agent" 1 exemplaire
'Hard lives, hard novels: ... a 'hack with an existential streak'' in TLS 5476, 14 March 2008 1 exemplaire
The Spell of the Trobriand Islands 1 exemplaire
The Widow 1 exemplaire
Na równinie węży 1 exemplaire
The Furies 1 exemplaire
VolPension 1 exemplaire
The New Yorker, June 2, 2003, "Gertrude Stein's War" 1 exemplaire
Vakantieverhalen — Contributeur — 1 exemplaire
Oeuvres associées
What Maisie Knew (1897) — Directeur de publication, quelques éditions — 2,159 exemplaires, 43 critiques
Le pire voyage au monde : Antarctique 1910-1913 (1922) — Introduction, quelques éditions — 1,936 exemplaires, 56 critiques
Granta 84: Over There: How America Sees the World (2004) — Contributeur — 230 exemplaires, 1 critique
I Should Have Stayed Home: The Worst Trips of the Great Writers (1994) — Contributeur — 182 exemplaires, 5 critiques
It Occurs to Me That I Am America: New Stories and Art (2018) — Contributeur — 76 exemplaires, 1 critique
Who's Writing This? Notations on the Authorial I, with Self-Portraits {not Antæus} (1995) — Contributeur — 73 exemplaires
Fakes: An Anthology of Pseudo-Interviews, Faux-Lectures, Quasi-Letters, "Found" Texts, and Other Fraudulent Artifacts (2012) — Contributeur — 69 exemplaires, 4 critiques
Oxtravels: Meetings with Remarkable Travel Writers (2011) — Contributeur — 57 exemplaires, 3 critiques
100 Journeys for the Spirit: Sacred, Inspiring, Mysterious, Enlightening (2010) — Contributeur — 55 exemplaires
Literary Traveller: An Anthology of Contemporary Short Fiction (1994) — Contributeur — 54 exemplaires, 1 critique
Cape Cod Stories: Tales from Cape Cod, Nantucket, and Martha's Vineyard (1996) — Contributeur — 52 exemplaires, 5 critiques
Op reis met... — Contributeur — 6 exemplaires
Mexico reisverhalen — Contributeur — 2 exemplaires
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Nom canonique
- Theroux, Paul
- Date de naissance
- 1941
- Sexe
- male
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Medford, Massachusetts, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Cape Cod, Massachusetts, USA
London, England, UK
Malawi
Uganda
Singapore
Dorset, England, UK (tout afficher 7)
Hawaii, USA - Études
- University of Massachusetts
- Relations
- Theroux, Marcel (son)
Theroux, Louis (son)
Theroux, Alexander (brother)
Theroux, Peter (brother)
Theroux, Phyllis (sister-in-law)
Theroux, Justin (nephew) (tout afficher 7)
Naipaul, V.S. (friend) - Organisations
- University of Singapore
American Academy of Arts and Letters (Literature, 1984) - Prix et distinctions
- American Academy of Arts and Letters Academy Award (Literature, 1977)
Membres
Discussions
Found: Short story about a village who has no written records but a kid chronicler à Name that Book (Mars 2022)
Critiques
Listes
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Folio Society (1)
Central America (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
Read These Too (1)
Tour of Africa (2)
Asia (2)
Fiction For Men (1)
Franklit (1)
1980s (1)
Page Turners (1)
Prix et récompenses
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Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 113
- Aussi par
- 69
- Membres
- 30,082
- Popularité
- #669
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 616
- ISBN
- 1,049
- Langues
- 21
- Favoris
- 91
> RETOUR EN PATAGONIE, de Bruce Chatwin et Paul Théroux. — En 76 nages, l’écrivain britannique Bruce Chatwin, un des tenants du « travel wrîtîng », et le romancier américain Paul Théroux dialoguent sur la Patagonie. Leurs entretiens tiennent plutôt du soliloque. Unir double récit de voyage laisse davantage entrevoir une Patagonie imaginaire que réelle. Pour cela, ils en tissent une géographie littéraire aussi inspirée que saugrenue. Bref, leur voyage fait rêver. Ils s’amusent et le lecteur partage leur plaisir à converser. A travers eux, Coleridge, Darwin, Poe, Borges et de nombreux autres hommes de lettres sont également du voyage. La préface est de Nicolas Shakespeare. le critique littéraire du Telegraph. lequel présente Chatwin. Il faut la lire absolument. Editions de l'Olivier
—Le devoir, 22 janvier 1994, C-21 : https://collections.banq.qc.ca/ark:/52327/2769619… (plus d'informations)