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Nicholas Shakespeare | Author
Nicholas Shakespeare is a prize-winning novelist and biographer, described by the Wall Street Journal as ‘one of the best English novelists of our time’. One of Granta’s Best of Young British Novelists 1993, his books have been translated into 22 languages. They include The Vision of Elena Silves, winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, and The Dancer Upstairs, which was made into a film by John Malkovich and named Best Novel of 1995 by the American Libraries Association. His nonfiction includes the critically acclaimed authorised biography of Bruce Chatwin, In Tasmania, and Priscilla: the hidden life of an Englishwoman in Occupied France. He has been longlisted for the Booker Prize twice, was a Visiting Fellow at All Souls College, Oxford, and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
In 2023, Shakespeare released Ian Fleming: The Complete Man – the first authorised biography of the author since 1966 – and received the Crime Writer’s Association Gold Dagger for that year’s best non-fiction.
