Nicholas Royle
| Nicholas Royle | |
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| Born |
20 March 1963 Manchester, United Kingdom |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Nationality | British |
| Period | (1993–present) |
| Genre | Literary Fiction/Crime Fiction/Horror |
| Website | |
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Nicholas Royle (born in Manchester in 1963.[1]) is an English novelist, editor, publisher, literary reviewer and creative writing lecturer.[2]
Literary career
Author
Royle has written seven novels - Counterparts, Saxophone Dreams, The Matter of the Heart, The Director’s Cut, Antwerp, Regicide and First Novel.[3] He also claims to have written more than 100 short stories, which have appeared in a variety of anthologies and magazines. His last book for Serpent's Tail, publisher of two previous novels, is a short story collection, Mortality.
Awards
Royle has won a British Fantasy Award three times: Best Anthology in 1992 and 1993 and Best Short Story in 1993. He has been nominated for Best Short Story three further times.[4]
The Matter of the Heart won the Bad Sex in Fiction Award in 1997.[5]
Editor
Aa an editor, Royle is best known for having edited[6] The Lighthouse, by Alison Moore, which was shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize.[7] and "The Many" by Wyl Menmuir, which was longlisted for the 2016 Man Booker Prize.[8]
He has also edited twelve anthologies including A Book of Two Halves, The Tiger Garden: A Book of Writers’ Dreams, The Time Out Book of New York Short Stories, and Dreams Never End (Tindal Street Press) and several other novels.
Publisher
Royle owns and manages Nightjar Press, which publishes short-stories as signed, limited edition, chapbooks.[9] Nightjar Press has published authors including M. John Harrison, Christopher Kenworthy, Joel Lane, Alison Moore and Michael Marshall Smith[10]
Academic career
Royle is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University[11] and has been Chair of Judges for the Manchester Fiction Prize since it was launched in 2009.
Bibliography
Novels
- Counterparts (1995 – ISBN 978 0 14024 386 4 [UK], Penguin )
- Saxophone Dreams (1996 – ISBN 978 0 14024 387 1 [UK], Penguin)
- The Matter of the Heart (1997 – ISBN 978 0 34910 956 5 [UK], Abacus)
- The Director’s Cut (2001 – ISBN 978 0 34911 430 9 [UK], Abacus)
- Antwerp (2005 – ISBN 978 1 85242785 6 [UK], Serpent's Tail)
- Regicide (2011 – ISBN 978 1 90799 201 8 [UK], Serpent's Tail)
- First Novel (2013 – ISBN 978 0 22409 698 0 [UK], Johnathan Cape)
Novellas
- The Enigma of Departure (2008 – ISBN 978 1 90583 420 4 [UK], PS Publishing)
- The Appetite (2008 – ISBN 978 1 90633 102 3 [UK], Gray Friar Press)
Short Story Collection
- Mortality (2011 – ISBN 978 1 85242 476 3 [UK], Serpent's Tail)
Personal
Royle is married with two children and lives in Manchester.
Royle shares his name with a Professor of English at the University of Sussex who is an authority on Jacques Derrida, and the author of textbooks, including The Uncanny, and a novel, Quilt. The two are often confused with each other.[12]
Notes
- ↑ "Biography of Nicholas Royle on Salt website" (PDF).
- ↑ "Biography on author's website".
- ↑ "Bibliography on author's website".
- ↑ "Nicholas Royle Awards on ISFDB".
- ↑ "Bad Sex Award Winners".
- ↑ "The Quietus interview with Nicholas Royle".
- ↑ "Alison Moore". Man Booker Prize. Retrieved 17 September 2012.
- ↑ "Graduate author on Man Booker Prize longlist".
- ↑ "About Nightjar Press".
- ↑ "Nightjar Press Authors".
- ↑ "Manchester Metropolitan University Staff Profile".
- ↑ "Nicholas Royle vs Nicholas Royle".