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Francis Henry King

フランシス・ヘンリー・キング

Furanshisu Henrī King

Pen Names: Frank Cauldwell（Pseudonym used for The Firewalkers）

Profile

Gender
Male
Born
1923-03-04 （Adelboden）
Died
2011-07-03 （London） age 88
Nationality
British
Languages
English
Religion
Unknown
Residence History
Switzerland (Adelboden) → British India → England → Italy → Greece (Salonika) → Japan (Kyoto) → London

Career

Occupations
Novelist, Poet, Short story writer, Book reviewer, Theatre critic
Active Years
1946-2009
Affiliations
British Council, Sunday Telegraph
Memberships
Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature, President of PEN International (1986-1989)
Nominations
Man Booker Prize longlist (2003, The Nick of Time), Lost Man Booker Prize longlist (2010, A Domestic Animal)

Education

Shrewsbury School
Unknown
Period: 不明
Country: United Kingdom
Balliol College, Oxford
Unknown
Degree: BA
Period: 不明
Year of Graduation: 1949
Country: United Kingdom
Interrupted during WWII as conscientious objector

Awards

Somerset Maugham Award
1951
Work: The Dividing Stream
Organization: The Society of Authors
Result: 受賞
Golden PEN Award
2000
Organization: English PEN
Result: 受賞
Officer of the Order of the British Empire (OBE)
1979
Organization: British Government
Result: 受章
Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE)
1985
Organization: British Government
Result: 受章

Awards & Nominations

Works

Major Works

The Dividing Stream

1951 Novel

Award-winning novel.

Human relationships

A Domestic Animal

1969 Novel

Gay-themed novel.

Homosexuality

The Nick of Time

2002 Novel

Man Booker longlist novel.

Bibliography

  • To the Dark Tower (1946)
  • Never Again (1948)
  • An Air That Kills (1948)
  • The Dividing Stream (1951)
  • Rod of Incantation (1952)
  • The Dark Glasses (1954)
  • The Firewalkers (1956, as Frank Cauldwell)
  • Introducing Greece (1956)
  • The Man on the Rock (1957)
  • The Widow (1957)
  • So Hurt and Humiliated (1959)
  • The Custom House (1961)
  • The Japanese Umbrella and Other Stories (1964)
  • The Last of the Pleasure Gardens (1965)
  • The Waves Behind the Boat (1967)
  • Robert de Montesquiou (1967, translator)
  • The Brighton Belle and Other Stories (1968)
  • A Domestic Animal (1970)
  • Flights (1973)
  • A Game of Patience (1974)
  • The Needle (1975)
  • Christopher Isherwood (1976)
  • Hard Feelings (1976)
  • E.M. Forster and his World (1978)
  • The Action (1976)
  • Indirect Method (1980)
  • Florence (1982)
  • Act of Darkness (1983)
  • Voices in an Empty Room (1984)
  • One is a wanderer (1984)
  • Frozen Music (1987)
  • Danny Hill (1987)
  • Visiting Cards (1990)
  • The Woman who was God (1988)
  • Punishments (1989)
  • The Ant Colony (1992)
  • Yesterday Came Suddenly (1993)
  • The One and Only (1994)
  • Ash on an old man's sleeve (1996)
  • A Hand at the Shutter (1996)
  • Dead Letters (1998)
  • Prodigies (2001)
  • The Nick of Time (2002)
  • The Sunlight on the Garden (2005)
  • With My Little Eye (2007)
  • Cold Snap (2009)

Translations by Author

  • Robert de Montesquiou (translator, 1967)

Style & Themes

Literary Style
Elegant proseDeep psychological insight
Recurring Motifs
HomosexualityCross-cultural encounters

Health

  • Stroke
    2005年
    Affected his health and later writing

Legacy

Prominent British novelist known for his elegant style and explorations of homosexuality and cultural themes.

Archives

  • Harry Ransom Center, University of Texas at Austin

Trivia

  • Conscientious objector during WWII.
  • Long-term partner died of AIDS in 1988.