IAIN SINCLAIR
Author biography:
Iain Sinclair was born in Cardiff in 1943 and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He attended the Courtauld Institute of Art and the London School of Film Technique. Sinclair’s early work was mostly poetry, much of it published by his own small press, Albion Village Press. His first novel, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, was published by Goldmark in 1987 and formed a sort of trilogy with his earlier Lud Heat (1975) and Suicide Bridge (1979), both of which were innovative mixtures of essay, fiction, and poetry. White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings was runner-up for the prestigious Guardian Fiction Prize and brought widespread critical and popular attention to Sinclair’s work. His next fictional work, Downriver (1991) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for best novel of the year and the Encore Prize for best second novel.
More recently, Sinclair has published the highly acclaimed London Orbital (2002) (he also wrote and directed a film of the same name), Ghost Milk (2011), and American Smoke (2014). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009 and lives in Hackney, East London.
His 'official unofficial' website is http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/
Iain Sinclair was born in Cardiff in 1943 and educated at Trinity College Dublin. He attended the Courtauld Institute of Art and the London School of Film Technique. Sinclair’s early work was mostly poetry, much of it published by his own small press, Albion Village Press. His first novel, White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings, was published by Goldmark in 1987 and formed a sort of trilogy with his earlier Lud Heat (1975) and Suicide Bridge (1979), both of which were innovative mixtures of essay, fiction, and poetry. White Chappell, Scarlet Tracings was runner-up for the prestigious Guardian Fiction Prize and brought widespread critical and popular attention to Sinclair’s work. His next fictional work, Downriver (1991) won both the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for best novel of the year and the Encore Prize for best second novel.
More recently, Sinclair has published the highly acclaimed London Orbital (2002) (he also wrote and directed a film of the same name), Ghost Milk (2011), and American Smoke (2014). He was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2009 and lives in Hackney, East London.
His 'official unofficial' website is http://www.iainsinclair.org.uk/
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