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Horatio Clare
Horatio Clare (1973 - ) is a writer, radio producer and journalist. Born in London, he and his brother Alexander grew up on a hill farm in the Black Mountains of south Wales.
View my Blog here
http://literaturewalesblog.wordpress.com/
Clare describes the experience in his first book "Running for the Hills" (John Murray 2006) which was widely and favourably reivewed in the UK, where it became a bestseller, as in the US.
His second book "Truant: Notes from the Slippery Slope" (John Murray July 2007) seeks to explore and explain 'the mad elephant years' as the book calls them, the period in which young men are most likely to take drugs, get into fights, go to jail and commit suicide.
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October 2011 News!
Horatio's first novella, 'The Prince's Pen' is out now!
The Guardian describes it as "An epic tale of conflict, faith and banishment...a savagely contemporary tale...a graphic depiction of the cruelty of war and torture..."
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Meet the Author - dates here
Please visit these page where I will post any dates of upcoming festivals and appearances |
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Publications:
- A Single Swallow
- Truant: Notes from A Slippery Slope
- Running for the Hills
- Sicily Through Writers' Eye
- Red City: Marakech Through Writers' Eyes
- Meetings With Remarkable Muslims
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OUT NOW - A Single Swallow
The story of a journey between Cape Town and South Wales in 2008, following Barn Swallows on their northbound migration, leaving the Cape on February 1st and crossing the Severn Sea (aka the Bristol Channel)
Forum Swallow Notes, Questions and Queries here
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His journalism has appeared in The Guardian, The Sunday Times, The Spectator, The New Statesman, The Financial Times, The Daily Telegraph and Vogue.
At the BBC Clare worked as a researcher, then producer on Front Row (Radio 4), Night Waves and The Verb (Radio 3) for which he now freelances.
Running for the Hills" won a Somerset Maugham Award in 2007, was longlisted for The Guardian First Book Award 2006 and Clare was shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award, 2007.
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