Nathan Filer
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Occupation | Writer, Lecturer |
Nationality | British |
Alma mater | Betty Trask Prize |
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Nathan Filer is a British writer best known for his
Life and career
Filer was born in
He also worked as a
The Shock of the Fall describes the life of a boy from Bristol dealing with his grief at the death of his brother, and experience of mental health care services for schizophrenia.[10][11][12] Reviewing the book in The Psychologist, Caroline Flurey writes, "This is a beautifully poignant book, written with sympathy and sensitivity, well deserving of its Costa Book of the Year award."[13]
Filer has written on a range of issues for The Guardian.[14][15][16] A story he wrote for The New York Times[17] that described working with the International Solidarity Movement in Palestine was adapted for an episode of the Israeli prime time radio show, Israel Story, featuring Filer and his partner.[18] He has also been a panelist on the BBC Radio 2 Book Club, BBC Radio 3's Free Thinking and BBC Radio 4's Open Book, Front Row, All in the Mind and the Today Programme.[4] In 2017 he presented an Archive on 4 documentary entitled The Mind in the Media in which he explored representations of mental illness and their impact.[19] This was shortlisted for a Mind Media Award in the best radio programme category.[20]
Nathan Filer's first book of non-fiction, The Heartland: Finding and Losing Schizophrenia, was published by
Filer has been awarded the honorary degree of Master of Letters from the University of the West of England[24] and the honorary degree of Doctor of Liberal Arts from Abertay University.[25] These degrees were conferred in recognition of his role in raising awareness through literature and his commitment to mental health care.[24][25]
He holds a
Books
- The Shock of the Fall (HarperFiction, 2013; The Borough Press, 2014)
- The Heartland (also published as This Book will Change Your Mind about Mental Health [27]) (Faber, 2019)
Awards and honours
- 2013 Costa Book Awards First Novel Award for The Shock of the Fall[1]
- 2013 Costa Book Awards Book of the Year for The Shock of the Fall[1]
- 2014 Betty Trask Prize winner for The Shock of the Fall[2]
- 2014 Specsavers National Book Awards Popular Fiction Book of the Year for The Shock of the Fall[28]
- 2014 Writers' Guild of Great Britain (WGGB Awards) Best First Novel for The Shock of the Fall[29]
- 2015 Honorary Degree of Master of Letters from the University of the West of England[24]
- 2015 Honorary Doctorate of Liberal Arts from Abertay University[25]
- 2017 Mind Media Awards Radio Category shortlisted for The Mind in the Media[20]
- 2020 Rathbones Folio Prize longlist for The Heartland[23]
References
- ^ a b c "Nathan Filer wins Costa Book of the Year with debut novel". BBC News. 28 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ a b Lisa Campbell (30 June 2014). "Filer and McBride among SoA award winners". The Bookseller. Retrieved 17 October 2014.
- ^ "The Shock of the Fall". Conville & Walsh. Retrieved 28 January 2015.
- ^ a b "Who is this guy?". Nathan Filer website. Retrieved 23 March 2015.
- ^ MacCormick, Ken (29 January 2014). "Bristol author Nathan Filer wins Costa Book of the Year award". Bristol Post. Archived from the original on 30 January 2014. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ "Nathan Filer alumnus profile". University of the West of England. 7 September 2015.
- ^ "Nathan Filer". Conville & Walsh. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- Apples & Snakes. Retrieved 19 October 2014.
- ^ "Nathan Filer". National Book Awards. Retrieved 24 February 2015.
- ^ Brown, Mark (28 January 2014). "Costa book award won by Nathan Filer for debut novel, The Shock of the Fall". The Guardian. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Clark, Nick (28 January 2014). "Costa Book of the Year: Debut novelist Nathan Filer is shock winner of prestigious prize". The Independent. Archived from the original on 18 June 2022. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Chilton, Martin (7 January 2014). "The Shock of the Fall by Nathan Filer, review". The Telegraph. Retrieved 30 January 2014.
- ^ Fluery, C. (2014), "Beautifully poignant", The Psychologist, Vol. 27, No. 6, June 2014, p. 460.
- ^ Nathan Filer (25 January 2014). "Mental Health Care: where did it all go so wrong?". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ^ Nathan Filer (31 July 2014). "Why you should ignore the superlatives on book jackets". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ^ Nathan Filer (7 February 2014). "My Hero: Malala Yousafzai". The Guardian. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ^ Nathan Filer (21 November 2014). "Rules of Engagement". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 February 2015.
- ^ "Episode 12 Now Boarding". 2016. Retrieved 25 July 2017.
- ^ "The Mind in the Media". BBC Radio 4. 4 March 2017.
- ^ a b "Mind Media Awards 2017 The Shortlist". Mind. 16 October 2017.
- ISSN 0140-0460. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ Illness, Rethink Mental (23 December 2019). "The last in our instalment of our #mentalhealth books of the decade is The Heartland by @nathanfiler Here's our Senior Media Officer, Patrick, with his thoughts pic.twitter.com/VEx7MmXxeA". @Rethink_. Retrieved 15 February 2020.
- ^ a b "2020 | the Rathbones Folio Prize".
- ^ a b c "UWE awards Honorary Degree to Nathan Filer". University of the West of England. 23 July 2015. Retrieved 12 August 2015.
- ^ a b c "Award-winning author Nathan Filer to receive Honorary degree at Abertay". Abertay University. 25 November 2015. Retrieved 30 November 2015.
- ^ "Our People Dr Nathan Filer". Bath Spa University. Retrieved 11 July 2023.
- ^ "Faber to rebrand Nathan Filer's mental health book | The Bookseller". www.thebookseller.com. Retrieved 5 December 2019.
- ^ "Bath Spa University Lecturer Nathan Filer recognised at the Specsavers National Book Awards 2014". Bath Chronicle. 28 November 2014. Retrieved 30 November 2014.
- ^ "Writers' Guild Awards: Winners Announced". Archived from the original on 21 January 2015. Retrieved 21 January 2015.