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Peter Ackroyd
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Person · Open Library
- Born
- 5 October 1949
- Works
- 165
Top works
- Complete Works of William Shakespeare
- Cities of blood
- T. S. Ilyūṭ
- Strangers to correction
- The Canterbury Tales
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Key facts
- Born
- ( 1949-10-05 ) 5 October 1949 (age 76) , East Acton , London, England, United Kingdom
- Occupation
- Novelist, biographer, critic
- Nationality
- British
- Alma mater
- Clare College, Cambridge ( BA )
- Period
- 1976–present
- Genre
- Biography drama essays fiction literary criticism non-fiction poetry short stories
- Subject
- London and its inhabitants; English history and culture
- Partner
- Brian Kuhn , (1980; died 1994)
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Peter
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United Kingdom
- Place of birth
- London
- Occupation
- television presenter
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Field of work
- poetry
- Genre
- sketch story
- Image
- Peter Ackroyd in 2007 (cropped).jpg
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- date of birth
- 1949-10-05
- member of
- Royal Society
- archives at
- Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library
- writing language
- English language
- name in native language
- Peter Ackroyd
- Commons category
- Peter Ackroyd
- nominated for
- Booker Prize
- has written for
- The New York Times
Sources (7)
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Article · Português
Peter Ackroyd (Londres, 1949) é um biógrafo, romancista e crítico inglês com um interesse particular pela história e cultura de Londres. Por seus romances sobre a história e cultura inglesas e suas biografias de, entre outros, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T.S. Eliot, Charles Chaplin e Sir Thomas More, ele ganhou o prêmio Somerset Maugham e dois prêmios Whitbread. Ele é conhecido pelo volume de trabalho que produziu, a variedade de estilos nele contidos, sua habilidade em assumir vozes diferentes e a profundidade de sua pesquisa. Ele foi eleito membro da Royal Society of Literature em 1984 e nomeado Comandante da Ordem do Império Britânico em 2003.
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