James Hamilton-Paterson

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James Hamilton-Paterson
St. Stephen's Hospital
New Statesman

James Hamilton-Paterson

FRSL (born 6 November 1941) is a poet and novelist
.

He is one of the most reclusive of British literary exiles, dividing his time between Austria, Italy and the Philippines.

Early life

James Hamilton-Paterson was born on 6 November 1941 in

London, England. His father was a neurosurgeon who treated the Aga Khan and provided the inspiration for the poem "Disease", for which Hamilton-Paterson was awarded the Newdigate Prize
.

He was educated at

King's School, Canterbury and Exeter College, Oxford
.

Having worked as a hospital orderly at

St. Stephen's Hospital between 1966 and 1968, Paterson earned his first break as a writer in 1969, when he began working as a reporter for the New Statesman. This continued until 1974, when he became features editor for Nova
magazine.

Literary career

Hamilton-Paterson is generally known as a commentator on the Philippines, where he has lived on and off since 1979. His novel

Marcos regime
into the geopolitical context of the time.

In 1989,

Whitbread Award
for first novel.

In 1992, he published Seven-Tenths, a far-ranging meditation upon the sea and its meanings. A mixture of art, science, history and philosophy, this book is a deep, abstract lament on loss and the loss of meaning.

In 2000, he returned to the magazine industry as a science columnist for

Das Magazin (Zurich) for two years before becoming a science columnist for Die Weltwoche
.

More recently he won acclaim for his Gerald Samper trilogy as well as his non-fiction book Empire of the Clouds, which details the aviation industry in post-war Britain.

Hamilton-Paterson was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 2023.[1]

Bibliography

Poetry

  • Option Three (1974)
  • Dutch Alps (1984)

Fiction

  • The View from Mount Dog (1987)
  • Gerontius (1989)
  • The Bell Boy (American title: That Time in Malomba) (1990)
  • Griefwork (1993)
  • Ghosts of Manila (1994)
  • The Music (1995)
  • Loving Monsters (2002)
  • Cooking with Fernet Branca (2004)
  • Amazing Disgrace (2006)
  • Rancid Pansies (2008)
  • Under the Radar: A Novel (2013)

Children's fiction

  • Flight Underground (1969)
  • The House in the Waves (1970)
  • Hostage (1978)

Non-fiction

References

  1. ISSN 0261-3077
    . Retrieved 13 July 2023.

External links

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