Nigel Heseltine
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Nigel Heseltine (1916 – 1996) was a Welsh writer, of travel books, short stories, plays, and poetry. He was the son of Peter Warlock.
He was born in London. In 1937 he was in Albania, and in 1938 he married Natalia Borisovna Galitzine or Galitzina, an aristocrat in Budapest. During World War II he was in Dublin, working as a playwright for the Olympia Theatre company of Shelagh Richards (1903-1985).
Later he wrote several books about Africa, including a classic account of crossing the Sahara.
[edit] Works
- Scarred Background (a Journey Through Albania) (1938)
- Dafydd ap Gwilym, Selected poems (1944, Cuala Press) translator
- From Libyan Sands to Chad (1959)
- Remaking Africa (1961)
- Twenty-five Poems, Dafydd ap Gwilym (1968, Piers Press, reprint of 1944 book) translator
- Madagascar (1971)
- Capriol for Mother, a memoir of Peter Warlock and his family by his son (1992)
