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BRUCE CHATWIN - GEBRAUCHT THE SONGLINES (VINTAG...

Bruce Chatwin was born in Sheffield in 1940. After attending Marlborough School he began work
as a porter at Sotheby's. Eight years later  having become one of Sotheby's youngest directors
he abandoned his job to pursue his passion for world travel. Between 1972 and 1975 he worked
for the Sunday Times   before announcing his next departure in a telegram: 'Gone to Patagonia
for six months.' This trip inspired the first of Chatwin's books  In Patagonia   which won the
Hawthornden Prize and the E.M. Forster Award and launched his writing career. Two of his books
have been made into feature films: The Viceroy of Ouidah (retitled Cobra Verde )  directed by
Werner Herzog  and Andrew Grieve's On the Black Hill . On publication The Songlines went
straight to Number 1 in the Sunday Times bestseller list and remained in the top ten for nine
months. On the Black Hill won the Whitbread First Novel Award while his novel Utz was nominated
for the 1988 Booker Prize. He died in January 1989  aged forty-eight.

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