![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Philip Hoare has been writing, almost unbeknownst to him, what is now shaping up as a trilogy of the sea: from Leviathan or the Whale to The Sea Inside and the third volume in which he is currently working. He is a regular contributor for The Independent, The Guardian and The Times Literary Supplement. ![]() He teaches at the University of Southampton, and was awarded an honourary doctorate by Plymouth University in 2011. He was co-curator of the Icons of Pop exposition at the National Portrait Gallery. He was a guest of the British Council at the FIL Guadalajara in 2015.Īn experienced broadcaster and curator, Hoare wrote and presented the BBC Arena film The Hunt for Moby-Dick, and directed three films for BBC’s Whale Night. Leviathan or The Whale (2008) won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction.His latest book, The Sea Inside, has been published by 4th Estate, UK, Melville House, US, and Ático de los Libros, Spain. Philip Hoare (born 1958, Southampton) is the author of seven works of non-fiction: Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990) and Noel Coward: A Biography (1995), Wilde’s Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997), Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), and England’s Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005). ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |