“a sort of disillusion and a sort of anger that Britain went along with something which seemed so, even at the time, to be a bridge too far and rather illogical,”
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Robert Harris
Robert Dennis Harris CBE is a British novelist and former journalist. Although he began his career in journalism and non-fiction, he is best known for his works of historical fiction. Beginning with the best-seller Fatherland, Harris focused on events surrounding the Second World War, followed by works set in ancient Rome. His later works are varied in settings but are mostly set after 1870.
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culture · English novelist (born 1957) · writer · journalist · novelist · screenwriter · science fiction writer · reporter · editing staff · also Robert Harris, Robert Harris (novelist), Robert Dennis Harris, Harris
Born 7 March 1957 · Q313981
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2026· 3 entries
“The day this appears a writ might come through the door. But I would doubt it, knowing him.”
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The Guardian: Agrippa by Robert Harris review – persuasive portrait of rivalry in ancient Rome
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2025· 2 entries
Yahoo: Robert Harris: If I wrote a book about Trump, no one would believe it
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KSAT: Author Robert Harris on 'Conclave' success ahead of Sunday's Oscars
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2024· 3 entries
The Guardian: Precipice by Robert Harris review – the prime minister’s affair
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The Guardian: Precipice by Robert Harris review – the PM and the socialite
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Awarded Commander of the Order of the British Empire (2024).
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2022· 5 entries
The Guardian: Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – regicides on the run
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The Guardian: Act of Oblivion by Robert Harris review – a master writer leads us on a 17th-century manhunt
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The Guardian: Munich by Robert Harris audiobook review – inside the backrooms of power
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The Guardian: Munich: The Edge of War review – handsome if muted take on Robert Harris’s spy thriller
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As a 4-part limited series starring Josh Hartnett
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2020· 3 entries
Awarded César Award for Best Adaptation for An Officer and a Spy (2020).
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Published “SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python” in Nature Methods — cited 36,839 times.
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Published “Array programming with NumPy” in Nature — cited 23,677 times.
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2016· 1 entry
Is a novel "set over 72 hours in the Vatican", leading up to "the election of a fictional Pope"
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2014· 1 entry
Awarded CWA Ian Fleming Steel Dagger for An Officer and a Spy (2014).
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2010· 2 entries
Awarded European Film Award for Best Screenwriter for The Ghost Writer (2010).
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Awarded European Film Award for Best Film for The Ghost Writer (2010).
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2009· 1 entry
Published “Research electronic data capture (REDCap)—A metadata-driven methodology and workflow process for providing translational research informatics support” in Journal of Biomedical Informatics — cited 47,018 times.
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2007· 3 entries
Harris wrote a screenplay of his novel Pompeii for director Roman Polanski
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As potentially the most expensive European film ever made, set to be shot in Spain
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After Blair resigned, Harris dropped his other work to write The Ghost
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2006· 1 entry
Harris followed up on Pompeii with another Roman-era work, Imperium, the first novel in a trilogy centred on the life of the great Roman orator and lawyer Marcus Tullius Cicero
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2003· 1 entry
Harris turned his attention to ancient Rome with Pompeii
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2000· 2 entries
Harris contributed a short story, "PMQ", to Hornby's 2000 collection Speaking with the Angel.
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Published “Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology” in Nature Genetics — cited 36,999 times.
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1997· 11 entries
“(...) strach zaburza zdolność osądu jeszcze bardziej niż alkohol i zmęczenie.”
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“W księgarniach powinny znajdować się oddzielne półki oznaczone napisem Schadenfreude.”
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“Wszystkie dobre książki są różne, natomiast wszystkie złe są dokładnie takie same.”
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“Nienapisana książka to cudowny wszechświat nieskończonych możliwości. Wystarczy jednak napisać słowo, a już zostaje ściągnięta na ziemię. Po jednym zdaniu jest już w połowie taka, jak każda pieprzona książka, która kiedykolwiek została napisana.”
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“Ludzka pamięć to prawdziwy skarbiec (...). Problemem jest tylko dobranie odpowiedniego klucza.”
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“Ludzie sukcesu rzadko mają refleksyjną naturę. Stale patrzą w przyszłość – dzięki temu odnoszą sukcesy. Nie leży w ich naturze pamiętanie, co przeżywali, jak byli ubrani, kto im towarzyszył, jak pachniało świeżo skoszona trawa na dziedzińcu kościoła w dniu ich ślubu lub jak mocno ich pierwsze dziecko trzymało ich za palec.”
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“... jeśli Jezus Chrystus nie zdołał rozwiązać wszystkich problemów tego świata, gdy żył między nami – a przecież był Synem Bożym! – to on zachowuje się trochę nierozsądnie, oczekując, że ja zrobię to w ciągu dziesięciu lat.”
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“Gdy zaczynają się pokazywać adwokaci, to zawsze oznacza, że sytuacja jest niedobra.”
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“Gdy brakuje geniuszu, pozostaje zawsze rzemiosło.”
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“Ciekawość jest jednak potężnym bodźcem – może słabszym niż seks i chciwość, ale na pewno silniejszym od altruizmu.”
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“Tak będzie zorganizowany następny Holocaust, pomyślałem, przesuwając się naprzód w samych skarpetkach. Dadzą nam bilety lotnicze, a my posłusznie wykonamy wszystkie polecenia.”
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (1996).
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1991· 1 entry
Played a supporting role as a reporter in the television series Selling Hitler, which was based on his non-fiction book of the same name
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1990· 1 entry
And in episode four of the second series a year later
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1987· 1 entry
At the age of 30, he became political editor of The Observer
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1957· 1 entry
Born 1957-03-07.
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1895· 1 entry
To run France's Statistical Section, its secret intelligence division
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