Peter Ackroyd

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

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

Peter Ackroyd (2007)

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