Costa Book Awards
1 appearances
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Edition 20 (1990) Winner
Nicholas Mosley
ニコラス・モズリー
Nikorasu Mozurī
Aliases:
Lord Ravensdale / 3rd Baron Ravensdale
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1923-06-25 （London）
- Died
- 2017-02-28 （London） age 93
- Nationality
- United Kingdom
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- London, England
Career
- Occupations
- novelist, biographer, peer, soldier
- Active Years
- 1951-2017
- Affiliations
- House of Lords, Royal Society of Literature
- Memberships
- Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature (FRSL)
- Influenced By
- Oswald Mosley
- Nominations
- Booker Prize shortlist (Impossible Object, 1969)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Eton College | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Balliol College, Oxford | — | Philosophy | — | — | United Kingdom |
Eton College
Country:
United Kingdom
Balliol College, Oxford
Philosophy
Country:
United Kingdom
Attended briefly after war
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1945 | Military Cross | — | — | British Army | 受賞 |
| 1991 | Whitbread Book of the Year | Hopeful Monsters | — | — | 受賞 |
Military Cross
1945
Organization:
British Army
Result:
受賞
Whitbread Book of the Year
1991
Work:
Hopeful Monsters
Result:
受賞
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Accident
1965 NovelA novel about complex relationships and an accident.
RelationshipsMorality
Adaptations
- [Film] Accident / Joseph Losey (1967)
Impossible Object
1968 NovelExplores the impossibility of love and relationships.
LoveImpossibility
Adaptations
- [Film] Story of a Love Story / John Frankenheimer (1973)
Hopeful Monsters
1990 NovelEpic novel spanning 20th-century intellectual and political history.
SciencePoliticsReligion
Bibliography
- Spaces of the Dark (1951)
- The Rainbearers (1955)
- Corruption (1957)
- Meeting Place (1962)
- Accident (1965)
- Assassins (1966)
- Impossible Object (1968)
- Natalie Natalia (1971)
- Catastrophe Practice (1979)
- Imago Bird (1980)
- Serpent (1981)
- Judith (1986)
- Hopeful Monsters (1990)
- Children of Darkness and Light (1995)
- The Hesperides Tree (2001)
Translations by Author
- Rules of the Game / Beyond the Pale
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- ExperimentalFragmentaryPhilosophical
- Recurring Motifs
- FamilyPoliticsReligionStammering
Health
-
Stammer幼少期Treated by Lionel Logue, managed speech.
Legacy
Novelist and biographer who wrote critically about his fascist father Oswald Mosley, building a unique literary style; Whitbread Prize winner.
In Popular Culture
- Featured in TV series Mosley about his father.
Trivia
- Son of British fascist leader Oswald Mosley.
- Awarded Military Cross in Italy during WWII.
- Served in House of Lords but rarely used title.