Bruce Chatwin
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English novelist (1940–1989)
OverviewAI-generated
Bruce Chatwin was an author whose work period spanned from 1977 to 1989. Born on 13 May 1940, he died on 18 January 1989. His bibliography includes titles such as *In Patagonia : The viceroy of Ouidah*, *Nowhere Is a Place*, *Patagonia Revisited*, *Great American Families*, and *Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold*.
A quote attributed to Chatwin states, "To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe." While Open Library lists 40 works, Crossref records five. He is referenced by 184 other encyclopedia articles.
Synthesized by Vinony from 19 facts across 7 sources: Wikidata, Last.fm, Crossref, Wikiquote, MusicBrainz, Open Library, Vinony graph. Generated from structured data (not the Wikipedia text) and checked against those facts — may still contain errors.
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 13 May 1940
- Died
- 18 January 1989
- Works
- 40
Top works
- Great American Families
- Prentice Hall Literature -- Gold
- Patagonia Revisited
- Nowhere Is a Place
- In Patagonia : The viceroy of Ouidah
via Open Library + Wikidata
Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 34
- Total plays
- 324
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Full-length transcriptome assembly from RNA-Seq data without a reference genome
· 2011 · cited 19,399x
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,613x
- Geneious Basic: An integrated and extendable desktop software platform for the organization and analysis of sequence data
· 2012 · cited 17,962x
- The value of the world's ecosystem services and natural capital
· 1997 · cited 16,321x
- Accurate normalization of real-time quantitative RT-PCR data by geometric averaging of multiple internal control genes
· 2002 · cited 16,049x
via Crossref · CC0
Quotes
- “Even today, when an Aboriginal mother notices the first stirrings of speech in her child, she lets it handle the "things" of that particular country: leaves, fruit, insects and so forth. "We give our children guns and computer games," Wendy said. "They gave their children the land."”
- “To lose a passport was the least of one's worries. To lose a notebook was a catastrophe.”
via Wikiquote · CC BY-SA
Key facts
- Born
- Charles Bruce Chatwin , ( 1940-05-13 ) 13 May 1940, Sheffield , West Riding of Yorkshire , England
- Died
- 18 January 1989 (1989-01-18) (aged 48), Nice , Alpes-Maritimes , France
- Resting place
- Agios Nikolaos, Messenia , Greece
- Occupation
- Novelist Travel writer Art and antiquities advisor
- Education
- Marlborough College
- Alma mater
- University of Edinburgh
- Period
- 1977–1989
- Genre
- Travel writing , fiction
- Subject
- Nomadism , slave trade
- Spouse
- Elizabeth Chanler ( married</span>"}]]}'>m. 21 August 1965</span>"}]]}'>1965 )
via Wikipedia infobox
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Encyclopedic overview
Charles Bruce Chatwin FRSL (13 May 1940 – 18 January 1989) was an English travel writer, novelist and journalist. His first book, In Patagonia (1977), established Chatwin as a travel writer, although he considered himself instead a storyteller, interested in bringing to light unusual tales. He won the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for his novel On the Black Hill (1982), while his novel Utz (1988) was shortlisted for the Booker Prize. In 2008 The Times ranked Chatwin as number 46 on their list of "50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945".
Chatwin was born in Sheffield. After completing his secondary education at Marlborough College, he went to work at the age of 18 at Sotheby's in London, where he gained an extensive knowledge of art and eventually ran the auction house's Antiquities and Impressionist Art departments. In 1966 he left Sotheby's to read archaeology at the University of Edinburgh, but he abandoned his studies after two years to pursue a career as a writer.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Bruce Chatwin” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.