Somerset Maugham Award
1 appearances
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Edition 0 (1990) Winner
Mark Hudson
マーク・ハドソン
Māku Hadoson
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1957-03-29 （Harrogate）
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Northern England mining village
Career
- Occupations
- writer, journalist, art critic
- Active Years
- 1989-2024
- Affiliations
- The Independent, Daily Telegraph
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Winchester School of Art | — | — | B.A. | — | United Kingdom |
Winchester School of Art
Degree:
B.A.
Country:
United Kingdom
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | Thomas Cook Travel Book Award | Our Grandmothers' Drums | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1990 | Somerset Maugham Award | Our Grandmothers' Drums | — | — | 受賞 |
| 1994 | NCR Book Award | Coming Back Brockens | — | — | 受賞 |
Thomas Cook Travel Book Award
1990
Work:
Our Grandmothers' Drums
Result:
受賞
Somerset Maugham Award
1990
Work:
Our Grandmothers' Drums
Result:
受賞
NCR Book Award
1994
Work:
Coming Back Brockens
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Our Grandmothers’ Drums
1989 Travel writingBased on a year spent living in a village in the Gambia, describing personal involvement in village life.
African culturepersonal participationanthropology
Coming Back Brockens
1994 MemoirBased on a year in a former mining village in northern England.
British societydecline
The Music in my Head
1998 SatireSatire on the world music phenomenon set in a fictional West African city.
world musicsatire
Titian, the Last Days
2009 BiographyPersonal study of Titian focusing on his mysterious last paintings.
art historyRenaissance
Bibliography
- Our Grandmothers’ Drums (1989)
- Coming Back Brockens (1994)
- The Music in my Head (1998)
- Titian, the Last Days (2009)
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- incorporates elements of historytravel writingcultural criticismpersonal participation
- Recurring Motifs
- diverse subject matterAfricanorthern England
Legacy
Known for diverse books incorporating history, travel, cultural criticism; art critic.
Quotes
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This is art that exists only to fill exhibitions such as this one, that wouldn't exist without subsidies, commissions and the whole lucrative contemporary art system.
Source: The Daily Telegraph (2015)
Trivia
- Chief art critic of The Independent since 2021.