Somerset Maugham Award
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Robert Macfarlane
ロバート・マクファーレン
Robāto Makufāren
Profile
- Gender
- Male
- Born
- 1976-08-15 （Halam, Nottinghamshire, England）
- Nationality
- British
- Languages
- English
- Residence History
- Nottinghamshire → Cambridge
Career
- Occupations
- Writer, Professor, Fellow
- Active Years
- 2003-2024
- Affiliations
- Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge, Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature
- Memberships
- Royal Society of Literature
- Influenced By
- John Muir, Richard Jefferies, Edward Thomas, Roger Deakin
- Influenced
- Contemporary nature writers
- Nominations
- Boardman Tasker Prize shortlist (Mountains of the Mind), John Llewelyn Rhys Prize shortlist (Mountains of the Mind), Samuel Johnson Prize shortlist (The Old Ways), Jan Michalski Prize shortlist (The Old Ways)
Education
| Institution | Faculty | Department | Degree | Period | Country |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Nottingham High School | — | — | — | — | England |
| Pembroke College, Cambridge | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Magdalen College, Oxford | — | — | — | — | United Kingdom |
| Emmanuel College, Cambridge | — | PhD | PhD | 2000- | United Kingdom |
Nottingham High School
Country:
England
Pembroke College, Cambridge
Country:
United Kingdom
Magdalen College, Oxford
Country:
United Kingdom
Emmanuel College, Cambridge
PhD
Degree:
PhD
Period:
2000-
Country:
United Kingdom
Began PhD in 2000, elected Fellow in 2001
Awards
| Year | Award | Work | Category | Organization | Result |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2003 | Guardian First Book Award | Mountains of the Mind | — | The Guardian | winner |
| 2004 | Somerset Maugham Award | Mountains of the Mind | — | Society of Authors | winner |
| 2004 | Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award | Mountains of the Mind | — | Sunday Times | winner |
| 2007 | Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature | The Wild Places | — | — | winner |
| 2008 | Grand Prize Banff Mountain Festival | The Wild Places | — | Banff Centre | winner |
| 2008 | Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award | The Wild Places | — | Scottish Arts Council | winner |
| 2011 | Philip Leverhulme Prize | — | 現代ヨーロッパ言語・文学 | Leverhulme Trust | winner |
| 2017 | E. M. Forster Award | — | — | American Academy of Arts and Letters | winner |
| 2019 | Wainwright Prize | Underland | — | — | winner |
| 2019 | NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis | Underland | — | NDR | winner |
| 2023 | Weston International Award | — | — | Writers' Trust of Canada | winner |
| 2024 | Blue Metropolis Planet Earth Literature Prize | — | — | Blue Metropolis | winner |
Guardian First Book Award
2003
Work:
Mountains of the Mind
Organization:
The Guardian
Result:
winner
Somerset Maugham Award
2004
Work:
Mountains of the Mind
Organization:
Society of Authors
Result:
winner
Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award
2004
Work:
Mountains of the Mind
Organization:
Sunday Times
Result:
winner
Boardman Tasker Prize for Mountain Literature
2007
Work:
The Wild Places
Result:
winner
Grand Prize Banff Mountain Festival
2008
Work:
The Wild Places
Organization:
Banff Centre
Result:
winner
Scottish Arts Council Non-Fiction Book of the Year Award
2008
Work:
The Wild Places
Organization:
Scottish Arts Council
Result:
winner
Philip Leverhulme Prize
2011
Category:
現代ヨーロッパ言語・文学
Organization:
Leverhulme Trust
Result:
winner
E. M. Forster Award
2017
Organization:
American Academy of Arts and Letters
Result:
winner
Wainwright Prize
2019
Work:
Underland
Result:
winner
NDR Kultur Sachbuchpreis
2019
Work:
Underland
Organization:
NDR
Result:
winner
Weston International Award
2023
Organization:
Writers' Trust of Canada
Result:
winner
Blue Metropolis Planet Earth Literature Prize
2024
Organization:
Blue Metropolis
Result:
winner
Awards & Nominations
Works
Major Works
Mountains of the Mind
2003 Nature writingAn account of the development of Western attitudes to mountains and precipitous landscapes, examining why people are drawn to mountains.
mountainsimaginationnature
The Wild Places
2007 Nature writingDescribes journeys in search of wildness in Britain and Ireland.
wildnesslandscapetravel
Adaptations
- [Television] Natural World (2010)
The Old Ways
2012 Travel literatureFollows old ways in various places, guided by Edward Thomas.
pathslandscapepeople and place
Landmarks
2015 Nature writingCelebrates language of landscape with glossary of terms.
languagenatureplace
The Lost Words
2017 Children's bookSpell book responding to nature words dropped from children's dictionary.
nature wordsenvironmentchildren
Underland
2019 Nature writingExplores underworlds and subterranean journeys.
underworlddeep timeearth
Bibliography
- Mountains of the Mind
- Original Copy
- The Wild Places
- The Old Ways
- Holloway
- Landmarks
- The Gifts of Reading
- The Lost Words
- Ness
- The Lost Spells
- Is a River Alive?
Adaptations
- Mountain (script)
- River (script)
- Upstream
Style & Themes
- Literary Style
- poetic prosedetailed observationdialect vocabulary
- Recurring Motifs
- landscapeplacenature and languagewalking
Legacy
Influential British nature writer known for works on landscape, nature, place, and language.
Academic Societies
- Royal Society of Literature
In Popular Culture
- Nobel Prize contender (2022,2024)
- The Lost Words as cultural phenomenon
Trivia
- Married to Julia Lovell, professor of Chinese literature
- Father John Macfarlane co-authored CURB-65
- Grandfather Edward Peck, diplomat and mountaineer
- Three children: Lily, Thomas, William Macfarlane