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Rory MacLean

Canadian historian and travel writer

Rory MacLeanFRSL (born 5 November 1954)[1] is a British-Canadian[2] historian boss travel writer who lives keep from works in Berlin and honesty United Kingdom.

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His beat known works are Stalin’s Nose, a travelogue through eastern Collection after the fall of loftiness Berlin Wall; Magic Bus, on the rocks history of the Asia Overland hippie trail; and Berlin: Visualize a City, a portrait finance that city over 500 life. In 2019 John le Carré wrote that MacLean "must beyond a shadow of dou be the outstanding, and outdo indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time."[3]

Biography

MacLean was born in Vancouver, decency son of Canadian newspaper owner Andrew Dyas MacLean and Joan Howe, former secretary to novelist Ian Fleming at The Times and part-inspiration for the mythical James Bond character Miss Moneypenny.[4] He grew up in Toronto, graduating from Upper Canada Faculty and Toronto Metropolitan University.

Sustenance ten years he was elaborate in movie productions,[5] working put up with David Hemmings and Ken A.e. in England, David Bowie[6] behave Berlin and Marlene Dietrich[7] the same Paris. In 1989 he won The Independent inaugural travel terms competition and changed from relay to prose writing.

After wind-up nine travel books in high-mindedness UK he wrote Berlin: Suppose a City in the cap where he blogged for probity Meet the Germans website grounding the Goethe-Institut. On the reporting of his 15th book Pravda Ha Ha: Truth, Lies gain the End of EuropeJan Moneyman wrote "This is a grand thing that MacLean is creating; a new kind of story, in several dimensions and multitudinous moods, that adds up extremity — across the span infer his books — a giant and continuing work of literature."[8] He is a Fellow set in motion the Royal Society of Literature[9] and founder and curator promote to the annual Sherborne Travel Chirography Festival.[10][11]

Writing career

MacLean's first book, Stalin's Nose (1992), told the forgery of a journey from Songster to Moscow in a Trabant and became a UK grade ten best-seller, winning the Yorkshire Post's Best First Work guerdon.

William Dalrymple called it, "the most extraordinary debut in operate writing since Bruce Chatwin’s In Patagonia".[12]Colin Thubron considered the picture perfect to be a "surreal masterpiece".[13]

His second book The Oatmeal Ark (1997) followed, exploring immigrant dreams from Scotland and across Canada.[14] It was nominated for nobility International Dublin Literary Award.

Like that which the chance arose to concentrated the Nobel Prize laureate Aung San Suu Kyi, MacLean cosmopolitan to Burma. Under the Dragon (1998) told the story inducing that country and won swindler Arts Council of England Writers' Award in 1997.[15]

In Falling recognize Icarus (2004), MacLean moved nominate Crete to hand build—and dart once—a flying machine to hit to terms with the carnage of his mother and discover examine the relevance of Hellene mythology to modern lives.[16] Ton his book Magic Bus (2006), Maclean followed the many prepubescent Western people who in greatness 1960s and 1970s blazed high-mindedness 'hippie trail' from Istanbul top India.

His seventh book Missing Lives (with photographer Nick Danziger) (2010) told the stories neat as a new pin fifteen people who went wanting during the Yugoslav wars. Tiara tenth book, Berlin: Imagine grand City (2014) is a non-fiction history of the German capital.[17][18]

When the 2018 Edinburgh International Seamless Festival commissioned The Freedom Papers from 51 writers to investigate ideas related to freedom, Maclean wrote a bleak essay stoke of luck daily life in North Peninsula being a “scripted performance”.

Prohibited read this on BBC Tranny 4’s Book of the Week strand.[19]

Humanitarian work

MacLean worked with lensman Nick Danziger on books Missing Lives (International Committee of nobility Red Cross, Geneva, 2010) unthinkable Beneath the Carob Trees (CMP, Nicosia, 2016)[20] about the basis of thousands of Europeans who vanished in the Yugoslav Wars and the Cyprus conflict, boss the use of DNA make ill enable the relatives of short persons to recover the relic of their loved ones president so help to restore anticipate between communities.

MacLean and Danziger also collaborated on Another Life (Unbound, London, 2017), following 15 impoverished families in eight countries over 15 years to have another look at the effect of the Concerted Nations' Millennium Development Goals fracas lives lived on the frontier, as well as British Congress pluralism projects in Myanmar deed North Korea.

Works

  • Stalin’s Nose (1992)
  • The Oatmeal Ark (1997)
  • Under the Dragon (1998)
  • Next Exit Magic Kingdom (2000)
  • Falling for Icarus (2004)
  • Magic Bus (2006)
  • Missing Lives (2010)
  • Gift of Time (2011)
  • Back in the USSR: Heroic Karma in Transnistria (2014)
  • Berlin: Imagine first-class City (2014)
  • Wunderkind: Portraits of 50 Contemporary German Artists (2016)
  • Beneath position Carob Trees: The Lost Lives of Cyprus (2016)
  • Pictures of You: Ten Journeys in Time (2017)
  • In North Korea: Lives and Disinformation in the State of Truth (2017)
  • Pravda Ha Ha: Truth, Mendacity and the End of Europe (2019)

Notes

  1. ^LCCN 2009-292442
  2. ^MacLean, Rory.

    "Biography". Rory MacLean. Archived from the original put out 14 December 2014. Retrieved 23 December 2014.

  3. ^John le Carré, Tim Leffel's Travel Writing 2.0, December 2019
  4. ^Maclean, Rory (2012). Gift of Time. London: Constable & Robinson. ISBN .
  5. ^"BBC Programme Index".
  6. ^"Bowie make a way into Berlin: 'He drove round picture car park at 70mph pierce that he wanted to place it all'".

    . 13 Jan 2016.

  7. ^"Rory MacLean: Marlene Dietrich's resolute song | National Post". National Post. 24 June 2014.
  8. ^Jan Craftsman, Elementum, December 2019
  9. ^"Current RSL Fellowship | Royal Society of Literature". Archived from the original talk into 21 August 2014.

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    Retrieved 2 Hawthorn 2015.

  10. ^Guardian, 4th April 2023
  11. ^Sherborne Function Writing Festival
  12. ^William Dalrymple, in influence first edition of Stalin’s Nose (HarperCollins, London 1992)
  13. ^Colin Thubron, thwart his Introduction to a new-found edition of Stalin’s Nose (Tauris Parke, London, 2008)
  14. ^John Fowles, Taking Ghosts, The Spectator (London) 12 April 1997 p.37
  15. ^"Rory MacLean - Literature".

    . Retrieved 6 Feb 2018.

  16. ^Falling for Icarus (Tauris Parke, London, 2011)
  17. ^Gerard De Groot, Three Books on Berlin, Washington Display 31 October 2014
  18. ^Jan Morris, Berlin: Imagine a City, The Telegram 22 March 2014
  19. ^"The Freedom Papers: Rory Maclean and Kapka Kassabova".

    BBC R4 Book of high-mindedness Week, 2018-08-21.

  20. ^"CMP>CMP launches book documenting its work". . Archived yield the original on 2 Oct 2016.

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