Bruce Chatwin

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Bruce Charles Chatwin , born with Dronfield, close to Sheffield, the May 13rd 1940, and died in Nice the January 18th 1989 is a British writer , author in particular of accounts of voyages.

Biography

Chatwin wrote a short autobiography in an article published on August 2nd 1983 in the NewYork Times Book Review : I Always wanted to go to Patagonia - The making off has writer (I always wanted to go in Patagonie - birth of a writer) and compiled later in Anatomie of the wandering .

It was born with Sheffield in the Yorkshire. It passed its childhood to Birmingham, where his/her father worked. It made its studies in Marlborough College, in the Wiltshire but is regarded as a poor pupil. It however discovers there the literature within the local library.

He is engaged in 1958 by Sotheby' S one of the two big rooms of London sale where he quickly acquires an expertise in impressionist art and modern. He meets there in particular André Breton and Georges Braque. Problems of sight however will stop its career and it leaves to the Sudan. It is registered for studies of archeology but does not continue them. It leaves in Patagonie on the councils Eileen Gray.

Following a six months stay in this area, he writes In Patagonie , work which makes it recognize like one of the more great authors of the literature of voyage. Reached AIDS, surrounded by his wife and one of her former lovers, To marble Conran, he dies in Nice in 1989, old of forty-eight years.

Works

  • In Patagonie , 1977

  • the Viceroy of Ouidah , 1980
  • twins of Black Hill , 1982
  • song of the tracks , 1987
  • Utz , 1988
  • What I make there, 1989
  • Anatomie of the wandering , 1996

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