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]
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).
Publisher
Royle owns and manages Nightjar Press, which publishes short-stories as signed, limited edition, chapbooks.[8] Nightjar Press has published authors including M. John Harrison, Christopher Kenworthy, Joel Lane, Alison Moore and Michael Marshall Smith[9]
Academic career
Royle is a Senior Lecturer in Creative Writing in the Manchester Writing School at Manchester Metropolitan University[10] 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 the author of textbooks, including The Uncanny, and a novel, Quilt. The two are often confused with each other.[11]
Notes
- ↑ "Biography of Nicholas Royle on Salt website".
- ↑ "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.
- ↑ "About Nightjar Press".
- ↑ "Nightjar Press Authors".
- ↑ "Manchester Metropolitan University Staff Profile".
- ↑ "Nicholas Royle vs Nicholas Royle".