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第11回（2009年） Winner
Philip Hoare
フィリップ・ホアー
Firippu Hoā
別名:
Patrick Moore
プロフィール
- 性別
- 男性
- 生誕
- 1958 （Southampton）
- 国籍
- British
- 言語
- English
- 宗教
- Roman Catholic （洗礼名: Philip）
- 居住地歴
- Southampton
経歴
- 職業
- Writer, filmmaker, curator
- 活動期間
- 1982年〜2025年
- 所属
- Whale and Dolphin Conservation, Fine Arts Work Center, Rhode Island School of Design, University of Southampton
学歴
| 学校 | 学部 | 学科 | 学位 | 期間 | 国 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| St Mary's Independent School, Southampton | — | — | — | — | UK |
| St Mary's University, Twickenham | — | — | — | — | UK |
St Mary's Independent School, Southampton
国:
UK
Attended on a scholarship
St Mary's University, Twickenham
国:
UK
受賞歴
| 年 | 賞名 | 対象作品 | 部門 | 主催 | 結果 |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2009 | Samuel Johnson Prize | Leviathan, or the Whale | Non-Fiction | BBC | Winner |
Samuel Johnson Prize
2009
対象作品:
Leviathan, or the Whale
部門:
Non-Fiction
主催:
BBC
結果:
Winner
受賞・候補エディション
作品
代表作
Leviathan, or the Whale
2008年 Non-fictionDescribes a personal and societal fascination with whales.
WhalesSea
全著作
- Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990)
- Noël Coward: A Biography (1995)
- Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997)
- Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000)
- The Ghosts of Netley (2004)
- England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005)
- Leviathan or, The Whale (2008)
- The Whale: In Search Of The Giants Of The Sea (2010)
- The Sea Inside (2013)
- RisingTideFallingStar (2017)
- Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World (2021)
- William Blake and the Sea Monsters of Love (2025)
作風・主題
- 頻出モチーフ
- SeaWhales
評価・遺産
British writer known for non-fiction on whales, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize.
引用
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Imagine having to spend your entire life living with people asking: 'You're not that astronomer, are you?' ... Philip was my confirmation name; Hoare [was] my mother's maiden name.
出典: The Guardian interview (2013年)
豆知識
- Born as Patrick Moore, adopted the name Philip Hoare to avoid confusion with astronomer Patrick Moore.
- Philip is his confirmation name; Hoare is his mother's maiden name.