biography
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Chatwin, (Charles) Bruce
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| male
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| lived:
| (1940–89)
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| biography:
| Writer and traveller, born in Sheffield, South Yorkshire, N England, UK. He worked at Sotheby's as an expert on modern art for eight years until he temporarily went blind. To recuperate, he went to Africa, where he was converted to a life of nomadic asceticism, and began writing books which combine fiction, anthropology, philosophy, and travel. They include In Patagonia (1977, Hawthornden Prize), The Viceroy of Ouidah (1980), On The Black Hill (1982, Whitbread), The Songlines (1987), and Utz (1988), a novella which was short-listed for the Booker Prize. |
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