Bruce Chatwin

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Bruce Chatwin was a British travel writer and novelist renowned for his innovative, genre-blurring works such as "In Patagonia" and "The Songlines."

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instanceOf human
novelist
travel writer
awardReceived James Tait Black Memorial Prize
Whitbread Book Award
surface form: Whitbread Award
causeOfDeath AIDS-related complications
countryOfCitizenship United Kingdom
United Kingdom
surface form: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
dateOfBirth 1940-05-13
dateOfDeath 1989-01-18
describedAs innovative, genre-blurring writer
educatedAt Marlborough College
employer The Sunday Times
familyName Chatwin
fieldOfWork literary journalism
travel writing
genre fiction
non-fiction
travel literature
givenName Bruce
hasWorkInTheCollection National Portrait Gallery
surface form: National Portrait Gallery, London
influenced contemporary non-fiction
travel writing
influencedBy Patrick Leigh Fermor
W. G. Sebald
languageOfWorkOrName English
movement postmodern literature
name Bruce Chatwin self-link
nationality British
notableWork In Patagonia
On the Black Hill
Photographs and Notebooks
Songlines
surface form: The Songlines

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occupation art expert
novelist
travel writer
writer
placeOfBirth England
Sheffield
United Kingdom
placeOfDeath France
Nice
residence London, England
surface form: London
sexOrGender male
spouse Elizabeth Chatwin

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