Draft:Nick Hunt (writer)
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Nick Hunt (born 21st May 1981) is the son of English actress Caroline Hunt and Northern Irish screenwriter Ron Hutchinson. He is the grandson of theatre director Hugh Hunt and great-nephew of the climber John Hunt, Baron Hunt.[1] His first book Walking the Woods and the Water [2](Nicholas Brealey 2014), traced the route Patrick Leigh Fermor walked in 1933 and 1934, from the Hook of Holland to Istanbul. Walking the Woods and the Water was nominated for the Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards: Book of the Year.[3] His other travel books include Where the Wild Winds Are (Nicholas Brealey 2014)[4], which followed named winds in Europe, and Outlandish (John Murray (publishing house) 2021)[5], which explored 'unlikely landscapes' in Europe.
Other publications include The Parakeeting of London (Paradise Road 2019),[6] a work of ‘gonzo ornithology’, and a collection of short fiction, Loss Soup and Other Stories (Sumeru 2022).[7]
Red Smoking Mirror (Swift Press, 2023)[8] is Nick Hunt's debut novel. It was shortlisted for the Edward Stanford Viking Award for Fiction with a Sense of Place.[9]
'With Red Smoking Mirror, Nick Hunt has created the love child of JG Ballard and Ursula K Le Guin' - Joanna Pocock, author of Surrender[8]
Nick is an occasional contributor to BBC Radio 4’s ‘From Our Own Correspondent’,[10] and a recipient of the Royal Geographical Society Journey of a Lifetime Award.[11]
Nick's articles and features have appeared in The Guardian,[12] The Irish Times[13], Emergence Magazine[14], Dark Mountain[15], Noema[16], Aeon[17] and other publications.
Nick is a co-director of the Dark Mountain Project,[18] founded in 2009 by author Paul Kingsnorth and writer and social activist Dougald Hine.[19]
Nick is represented by Jessica Woollard at David Higham Associates.[20]
Further reading
[edit]- Review of Where The Wild Winds Are, The New Statesman
- 'I became a travel writer by accident then a novelist', Article for the Irish Times
- 'Everest: from mythical peak to the world's highest garbage dump', Article for The Guardian
External links
[edit]- ^ Hunt, Nick (2013-06-04). "Everest: from mythical peak to the world's highest garbage dump". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ Walking the Woods and the Water. 2019-04-25. ISBN 978-1-85788-643-6.
- ^ proverbs6to10 (2015-07-03). "Nick Hunt shortlisted for Stanford Dolman Travel Book of the Year". Patrick Leigh Fermor. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ Jamie, Kathleen (2017-10-28). "Where the Wild Winds Are: Nick Hunt weathers the storms of Europe". New Statesman. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ Outlandish. 2021-10-27. ISBN 978-1-5293-8741-4.
- ^ "The Parakeeting of London: An Adventure in Gonzo Ornithology". Paradise Road. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Loss Soup and Other Stories". Dark Mountain. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ a b "Red Smoking Mirror". Swift Press. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Edward Stanford Travel Writing Awards 2025 presented by Viking | Stanfords". www.stanfords.co.uk. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4: From Our Own Correspondent – Nick Hunt Scrutiny". Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "BBC Radio 4 - Journey of a Lifetime, 2010: Nick Hunt". BBC. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Nick Hunt". www.theguardian.com. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "I became a travel writer by accident, then a novelist by design. The two worlds meld in unexpected ways". The Irish Times. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Dead Wood – Nick Hunt". Emergence Magazine. 2020-01-22. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Nick Hunt, Author at Dark Mountain". Dark Mountain. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Nick Hunt". NOEMA. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Nick Hunt". Aeon. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "The Team". Dark Mountain. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "The Manifesto". Dark Mountain. Retrieved 2025-01-01.
- ^ "Nick Hunt". David Higham Associates. Retrieved 2025-01-01.