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Charles Bruce Chatwin 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. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Priz…
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culture · English writer, novelist and journalist (1940–1989) · writer · novelist · author · journalist · traveler · photographer · also Bruce Chatwin, Charles Bruce Chatwin, C. Bruce Chatwin, Bruce Charles Chatwin, Chatwin
Born 13 May 1940 · Died 18 January 1989 · Q348916
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Nearly every writer of my generation in England has wanted, at some point, to be Bruce Chatwin; wanted, like him, to talk of Fez and Firdausi, Nigeria and Nuristan, with equal authority; wanted to be talked about, as he is, with raucous envy; wanted above all to have written his books.
“Nearly every writer of my generation in England has wanted, at some point, to be Bruce Chatwin; wanted, like him, to talk of Fez and Firdausi, Nigeria and Nuristan, with equal authority; wanted to be talked about, as he is, with raucous envy; wanted above all to have written his books.”
“for me, the question of questions: the nature of human restlessness.”
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MutualArt.com: Bruce Chatwin
Publishers Weekly: Books by Bruce Chatwin and Complete Book Reviews
FirstShowing.net: Trailer for Herzog's Doc 'Nomad: In the Footsteps of Bruce Chatwin'
IndieWire: Werner Herzog’s ‘Nomad’ Trailer: Auteur’s Latest Film Follows Life of ‘Kindred Spirit’ Bruce Chatwin
The Guardian: Travel and endless talk connected me to details Chatwin’s Songlines missed | Paul Daley
The Guardian: ‘Dazzling and worrying’: my memories of Bruce Chatwin and In Patagonia
Couriermail: Bruce Chatwin’s 1980s bestseller The Songlines gets a bucketing by SA Museum anthropologist
The clothing label Burberry produced a collection inspired by Chatwin's books
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The Guardian: How Bruce Chatwin's notebooks continue to shape the virtual word
SFGate: 'Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin'
Observer: Book Review: Bruce Chatwin Had a Fiendish Typewriter
The Guardian's review of Under the Sun: The Letters of Bruce Chatwin opened with the question, "Does anyone read Bruce Chatwin these days
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The Times ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945"
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The Times rated Chatwin No
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And the company became known as Moleskine SpA
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The company began to sell them and use Chatwin's name to promote them
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Marta Sebregondi read The Songlines and proposed to her employer, the Italian design and publishing firm Modo & Modo, that they produce moleskine notebooks
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Died 1989-01-18.
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Was working on a number of new ideas for novels, including a transcontinental epic provisionally titled Lydia Livingstone
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“The word 'Aids' is one of the cruellest and silliest neologisms of our time. 'Aid' means help, succour, comfort—yet with a hissing sibilant tacked onto the end it becomes a nightmare.... HIV (Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus) is a perfectly easy name to live with. 'Aids' causes panic and despair and has probably done something to facilitate the spread of the disease.”
In a letter to the editor of the London Review of Books,
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And it became a bestseller in the United Kingdom and in the United States
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Suffering from mysterious symptoms which at the time he did not know was HIV, Chatwin interrupted his writing to make a pilgrimage to Mount Athos
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And 1984 in Australia, during which he primarily relied on non-Aboriginal people for information, as he was limited by his inability to speak the Aboriginal languages
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Chatwin returned to the topic of nomads and decided to focus on Aboriginal Australians
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Awarded James Tait Black Memorial Prize (1982).
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“decided to write something about people who never went out.”
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And Werner Herzog's film Cobra Verde (1987) is based on it
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Awarded E. M. Forster Award (1979).
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Sold photographs of secret Aboriginal initiation ceremonies to a magazine
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Awarded Hawthornden Prize (1977).
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Began his first serious affair with Donald Richards, an Australian stockbroker
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To visit Argentina and Chile, a trip that inspired his first book, In Patagonia (1977)
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And Maschler declined to publish it, calling it a "chore to read"
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Chatwin interviewed the 93-year-old architect and designer Eileen Gray in her Paris salon, where he noticed a map she had painted of the area of South America called Patagonia
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Chatwin tried his hand at film-making and travelled to Niger to make a documentary about nomads
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The Sunday Times Magazine hired Chatwin as an adviser on art and architecture
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Left Sotheby's to read archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, but he abandoned his studies after two years to pursue a career as a writer
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“acid green smear on the left.”
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Chatwin moved to London to begin work as a porter in the Works of Art department at Sotheby's
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Born 1940-05-13.
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The word 'Aids' is one of the cruellest and silliest neologisms of our time. 'Aid' means help, succour, comfort—yet with a hissing sibilant tacked onto the end it becomes a nightmare.... HIV (Human Immuno-Deficiency Virus) is a perfectly easy name to live with. 'Aids' causes panic and despair and has probably done something to facilitate the spread of the disease.
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