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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

St Mary's Independent School, Southampton
国: UK
Attended on a scholarship
St Mary's University, Twickenham
国: UK

受賞歴

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-fiction

Describes 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

  • 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.