Robert nye

Born on the ides of March in 1939, Robert Nye is a poet and novelist who started life in London and now lives in County Cork, Ireland.

He first began publishing his poetry at the age of 16 in London Magazine. Before becoming a writer he was a high school dropout, newspaper reporter, milkman, garden laborer, and a sanitarium orderly. After becoming a full-time writer, he alternated between poetry, novels, juvenile fiction, and radio plays.

During the mid-70s, Nye was a writer in residence at the University of Edinburgh during which he wrote Falstaff, a play which earned him the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Hawthornden Prize.

 

 

 

BIBLIOGRAPHY

March Has Horse's Ears
Bird of the Golden Land
Taliesin
Faust
Beowulf: A New Telling
Harry Pay the Pirate
Doubtfire
The Voyage of Destiny
Sawney Bean
Memoirs of Lord Byron
Wishing Gold
The Life & Death of My Lord Gilles De Rais
Agnus Dei
Seven Deadly Sins
The Good Thief
Divisions on a Ground
The Late Mr. Shakespeare
Falstaff
Sawney Dean
Penthesilea
Sisters
Merlin
A Bloody Stupit Hole
Once Upon Three Times
The Devils Jig

-- B. Redman