Philip Hoare
Philip Hoare | |
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| Born | Southampton, England, UK |
| Occupation | Writer |
| Website | www |
Philip Hoare is a British writer, film-maker and curator. He won the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work Leviathan, or the Whale.
Early life and education
[edit]Hoare was born in Southampton.[1] He studied at St Mary's University, Twickenham.[1]
He was born Patrick Moore.[2] He chose the name Philip Hoare to avoid confusion with astronomer Patrick Moore:[1]
Imagine having to spend your entire life living with people asking: 'You're not that astronomer, are you?' Or: 'Do you play the xylophone?' Another reason was that when I was managing bands I used to review my own bands for the NME and Sounds as Philip Hoare. Philip was my confirmation name; Hoare my mother's maiden name.
Career
[edit]Music
[edit]In 1982–83, Hoare ran the record label Operation Twilight, a UK-based subsidiary of the Belgian label Les Disques du Crépuscule.[1]
2009 Samuel Johnson Prize
[edit]Hoare was the winner of the 2009 Samuel Johnson Prize, now known as the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction, for his work Leviathan, or the Whale.[3] The book, which describes a personal and societal fascination with whales, received praise.[4][5] Jonathan Mirsky, writing for Literary Review, called the book "tremendous".[6]
Other work
[edit]Hoare has recorded podcasts for NPR, VICE and Al Jazeera Media Network.[7] His curatorial work includes Derek Jarman's Modern Nature,[8] and he contributed to the Victoria and Albert Museum's international touring exhibition, David Bowie Is.[9][better source needed]
Hoare has written articles on whales, including one on the orca 'attacks' off the Iberian Peninsula in 2023.[10] He is special ambassador for Whale and Dolphin Conservation, visiting fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, and lecturer at the Rhode Island School of Design, Providence.[11]
As a writer, Hoare has represented the British Council in Berlin, Guadalajara, and Moscow.[12][13][14]
Works
[edit]Hoare is the author of 11 works of non-fiction:
- Serious Pleasures: The Life of Stephen Tennant (1990)
- Noël Coward: A Biography (1995)
- Wilde's Last Stand: Decadence, Conspiracy, and the First World War (1997)
- Spike Island: The Memory of a Military Hospital (2000), the story of Netley Hospital in Southampton
- The Ghosts of Netley (2004)
- England's Lost Eden: Adventures in a Victorian Utopia (2005), about Mary Anne Girling and the New Forest Shakers
- Leviathan or, The Whale (2008), which won the 2009 BBC Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction
- The Whale: In Search Of The Giants Of The Sea (2010)
- The Sea Inside (2013)
- RisingTideFallingStar (2017)
- Albert and the Whale: Albrecht Dürer and How Art Imagines Our World (2021)[a]
He has also edited The Sayings of Noël Coward (1997).
Hoare has co-authored or contributed to the following publications:
- Essay on the evolution of class in the UK in a British Council pamphlet, Posh: The Evolution of the Traditional British Brand (ed. Sorrel Hershberg, 1999).
- An essay in Linder: Works 1976–2006 (2006), a collection about Linder Sterling.
- Gabriel Orozco (2006), exhibition catalogue and texts, with Mark Godfrey.
- Pet Shop Boys (2006), catalogue and texts, with Chris Heath.
- Introduction to David Austen (2007) (eds. Emma Dean and Michael Stanley).
- Foreword to Made in Southampton (2008), a box-set of prints.
- Provenance (2010), with Angela Cockayne, a response to Wunderkammen.
- Essay, "Something against nothing", in Tania Kovats (2011) (ed. Jeremy Millar).
- Dominion: A Whale Symposium (2012) (eds. Hoare and Angela Cockayne).
- Essay in Malicious Damage: the Defaced Library Books of Kenneth Halliwell and Joe Orton (2013), (ed. Ilsa Colsell).
- Essay in Southampton: A City Lost ... And Found (2013), a collection of drawings by Eric Meadus.
- Record of a discussion between Hoare, Christopher Frayling and Mark Kermode on David Bowie's cultural impact, in David Bowie is the subject (2013) (eds. Victoria Broackes and Geoffrey Marsh).
- Greetings from Darktown : an illustrator's miscellany, a collection of the work of Jonny Hannah, with texts by Hoare, Sheena Calvert and Peter Chrisp (2014).
- Foreword to As is the sea (2014), writing by students from the Royal College of Art (ed. Jessie Bond).
- Another Green World – Linn Botanic Gardens: Encounters with a Scottish Arcadia (2015), photographs by Alison Turnbull, text by Hoare.
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- Notes
- ^ Briefly reviewed in the May 31, 2021 issue of The New Yorker, p.63.
References
[edit]- ^ a b c d Sandhu, Sukhdev (21 June 2013). "Philip Hoare: A Life in Writing". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2024.
- ^ Vickers, Hugo (23 October 2011). "How We Met: Hugo Vickers and Philip Hoare". The Independent. Archived from the original on 26 May 2022. Retrieved 20 November 2015.
- ^ Brown, Mark (30 June 2009). "'Classic' study of whales wins Samuel Johnson prize". The Guardian.
- ^ "Review: Leviathan or, the Whale by Philip Hoare". 3 October 2008.
- ^ Brown, Mark (30 June 2009). "'Classic' study of whales wins Samuel Johnson prize". The Guardian.
- ^ "Jonathan Mirsky - Animals Before the Fall".
- ^ https://coastalstudies.org/news/napis-lecture-series-to-resume-jan-24-with-author-philip-hoare/.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Derek Jarman's Modern Nature".
- ^ "David Bowie is: | Deluxe Hardback Exhibition Book | V&A Shop".
- ^ "Philip Hoare | the Guardian". TheGuardian.com.
- ^ "Philip Hoare - Literature".
- ^ "Philip Hoare - Literature".
- ^ https://www.britishcouncil.org/voices-magazine/how-made-career-out-of-whale-watching.
{{cite web}}: Missing or empty|title=(help) - ^ "Philip Hoare talking about his work at #BritLitBerlin 2015". YouTube. 23 February 2015.
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