Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd
Biografske informacije
Rođenje	East Acton, London, Engleska
Nacionalnost	britansko
Obrazovanje
Zanimanje	pisac

Peter Ackroyd (2007)

Peter Ackroyd ( East Acton, London, 5.10. 1949.) je engleski pisac.

Odrastao je kod samohrane majke koja je radila u personalnom odjelu inženjerske firme. Bio je prilično nadareno dijete, te je s pet godina stekao naviku čitanja novina, a već s devet godina je napisao svoju prvu dramu, posvećenu Guyu Fawkesu. Kasnije se obrazovao na Cambridgeu i Yaleu.

Od 1973. do 1977. je radio za časopis The Spectator, da bi ga kasnije i uređivao.

Ispočetka je pisao poeziju, da bi se kasnije prebacio na prozu, pri čemu mu je omiljeni motiv bila historija, i to pogotovo historija engleske književnosti i umjetnosti. Njegovo najpoznatije djelo je London: The Biography, knjiga posvećena historiji Londona, koja je adaptirana u BBC-jevu igrano-dokumentarnu TV-seriju. Osim po njoj, Ackroyd je zapažen i po seriji historijskih knjiga Voyages Through Time posvećenoj mladom uzrastu.

Djela

Beletristika

• The Great Fire of London – 1982
• The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde – 1983
• Hawksmoor – 1985
• Chatterton – 1987 (kandidat za Bookerovu nagradu, 1987)
• First Light – 1989
• English Music – 1992
• The House of Doctor Dee – 1993
• Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem – 1994 (također izdana kao The Trial of Elizabeth Cree)
• Milton in America – 1996
• The Plato Papers – 1999
• The Clerkenwell Tales – 2003
• The Lambs of London – 2004
• The Fall of Troy – 2006

Publicistika

• Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on Modernism – 1976
• Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession – 1979
• T. S. Eliot: A Life – 1984
• Dickens' London: An Imaginative Vision – 1987
• The Life of Thomas More – 1988
• Ezra Pound and his World – 1989 ISBN 0-500-13069-8
• Dickens – 1990
• An Introduction to Dickens – 1991
• Blake – 1996
• London: The Biography – 2000
• Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination – 2002
• Chaucer (prva knjiga u planiranoj seriji Ackroyd's Brief Lives) – 2005
• Shakespeare: The Biography – 2005
• Turner (druga knjiga u seriji 'Brief Lives' series) – 2006
• Newton (treća knjiga u seriji 'Brief Lives') – 2007
• Thames: Sacred River – 2007

Dječja publicistika (Serija Voyages Through Time)

• The Beginning – 2003
• Escape From Earth – 2004
• Kingdom of the Dead – 2004
• Cities of Blood – 2004
• Ancient Greece – 2005
• Ancient Rome – 2005

Drame

• The Mystery of Charles Dickens – 2000

Televizijski nastupi

• 2004, London (TV serija)
• 2006 The Romantics
• 2007 London Visions, (dokumentarna serija) Artsworlda. V. recenziju here.

Vanjski linkovi

Podaci o piscu

• Peter Ackroyd na Internet Book List
• Peter Ackroyd na the Internet Book Database of Fiction
• Peter Ackroyd na Internet Speculative Fiction Database
• A more in-depth biography
• Guardian Books "Author Page", with profile and links to further articles.

Odlomci

• Excerpt from London: The Biography
• Another excerpt from London: The Biography
• Excerpt: Shakespeare on CBC Words at Large

Članci

• "The man who invented Arthur" - The Times - 13.8. 2005.
  • Članak o Thomasu Maloryju.
• "Undercover in mother Russia" - The Sunday Times - 26.11. 2006.
  • Putopis o Moskvi.

Recenzije

• Shakespeare, Review by John Carey - The Times, 18.9. 2005.
• Newton, Review by Nigel Hawkes - The Times, 22.4. 2006.
• The Clerkenwell Tales. Review - The Telegraph, 4.8. 2003.

Ackroydove recenzije drugih pisaca i umjetnika

• "Peter Ackroyd on the Thames": a review in the TLS by Rosemary Ashton, October 21 2007
• The Nativity: History and Legend by Geza Vermes - The Times - 23.12. 2006.
• London: City of Disappearances edited by Iain Sinclair - The Times - 7.10. 2006
• The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge by Adam Sisman - The Times - 11.11. 2006
• The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science by Philip Ball - The Times - 21.1. 2006
• Paris: The Secret History by Andrew Hussey - The Times
• Further book reviews at The Times available via this Google search.

Ostalo

• Called to the Bard - The Times - 20.8. 2005
  • Interview with Ackroyd, discussing Shakespeare.
• A 1991 interview on Charles Dickens with Peter Ackroyd Arhivirano 2013-03-09 na Wayback Machine-u by Don Swaim at Wired for Books