Peter Ackroyd

**Peter Ackroyd** ( East Acton, London, 5.10. 1949.) je engleski pisac.

Odrastao je kod samohrane majke koja je radila u personalnom odjelu inženjerske firme. Bio je prilično nadareno dijete, te je s pet godina stekao naviku čitanja novina, a već s devet godina je napisao svoju prvu dramu, posvećenu Guyu Fawkesu. Kasnije se obrazovao na Cambridgeu i Yaleu.

Od 1973. do 1977. je radio za časopis *[[The Spectator]]*, da bi ga kasnije i uređivao.

Ispočetka je pisao poeziju, da bi se kasnije prebacio na prozu, pri čemu mu je omiljeni motiv bila historija, i to pogotovo historija engleske književnosti i umjetnosti. Njegovo najpoznatije djelo je *London: The Biography*, knjiga posvećena historiji Londona, koja je adaptirana u BBC-jevu igrano-dokumentarnu TV-seriju. Osim po njoj, Ackroyd je zapažen i po seriji historijskih knjiga *Voyages Through Time* posvećenoj mladom uzrastu.

## Djela
### Beletristika
* *The Great Fire of London* &ndash; 1982
* *[[The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde]]* &ndash; 1983
* *Hawksmoor* &ndash; 1985
* *Chatterton* &ndash; 1987 (kandidat za Bookerovu nagradu, 1987)
* *First Light* &ndash; 1989
* *English Music* &ndash; 1992
* *The House of Doctor Dee* &ndash; 1993
* *Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem* &ndash; 1994 (također izdana kao *The Trial of Elizabeth Cree*)
* *Milton in America* &ndash; 1996
* *The Plato Papers* &ndash; 1999
* *The Clerkenwell Tales* &ndash; 2003
* *The Lambs of London* &ndash; 2004
* *The Fall of Troy* &ndash; 2006

### Publicistika
* *Notes for a New Culture: An Essay on [[Modernizam|Modernism]]* &ndash; 1976
* *Dressing Up: Transvestism and Drag: The History of an Obsession* &ndash; 1979
* *[[T. S. Eliot]]: A Life* &ndash; 1984
* *[[Charles Dickens|Dickens]]' London: An Imaginative Vision* &ndash; 1987
* *The Life of [[Thomas More]]* &ndash; 1988
* *[[Ezra Pound]] and his World* &ndash; 1989 
* *Dickens* &ndash; 1990
* *An Introduction to Dickens* &ndash; 1991
* *[[William Blake|Blake]]* &ndash; 1996
* *London: The Biography* &ndash; 2000
* *Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination* &ndash; 2002
* *Chaucer* (prva knjiga u planiranoj seriji *Ackroyd's Brief Lives*) &ndash; 2005
* *[[William Shakespeare|Shakespeare]]: The Biography* &ndash; 2005
* *Turner* (druga knjiga u seriji 'Brief Lives' series) &ndash; 2006
* *[[Isaac Newton|Newton]]* (treća knjiga u seriji 'Brief Lives') &ndash; 2007
* *[[Thames]]: Sacred River* &ndash; 2007

### Dječja publicistika (Serija ''Voyages Through Time'')
* *The Beginning* &ndash; 2003
* *Escape From Earth* &ndash; 2004
* *Kingdom of the Dead* &ndash; 2004
* *Cities of Blood* &ndash; 2004
* *Ancient Greece* &ndash; 2005
* *Ancient Rome* &ndash; 2005

### Drame
* *[[The Mystery of Charles Dickens]]* &ndash; 2000

## Televizijski nastupi
* 2004, *[[London (TV serija)]]*
* 2006 *The Romantics*
* 2007 *London Visions*, (dokumentarna serija) Artsworlda. V. recenziju here.

## Vanjske veze
### Podaci o piscu
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* A more in-depth biography
* Guardian Books "Author Page", with profile and links to further articles.

### Odlomci
* Excerpt from London: The Biography
* Another excerpt from London: The Biography
* Excerpt: Shakespeare on CBC Words at Large

### Članci
* "The man who invented Arthur"  - *[[The Times]]* - 13.8. 2005.
** Članak o Thomasu Maloryju.
* "Undercover in mother Russia" - *[[The Sunday Times (UK)|The Sunday Times]]* - 26.11. 2006.
** Putopis o Moskvi.

### Recenzije
* *Shakespeare*, Review by John Carey - *[[The Times]]*, 18.9. 2005.
* *Newton*, Review by Nigel Hawkes - *[[The Times]]*, 22.4. 2006.
* *The Clerkenwell Tales*. Review - *[[The Telegraph]]*, 4.8. 2003.

### Ackroydove recenzije drugih pisaca i umjetnika
* "Peter Ackroyd on the Thames": a review in the TLS by Rosemary Ashton, October 21 2007
* *[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2514488,00.html The Nativity: History and Legend] * by Geza Vermes - *[[The Times]]* - 23.12. 2006.
* *[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,923-2390779,00.html London: City of Disappearances] * edited by Iain Sinclair - *[[The Times]]* - 7.10. 2006
* *[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23113-2445952,00.html The Friendship: Wordsworth and Coleridge]* by Adam Sisman - *[[The Times]]* - 11.11. 2006
* *[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23114-2000573,00.html The Devil's Doctor: Paracelsus and the World of Renaissance Magic and Science]* by Philip Ball - *[[The Times]]* - 21.1. 2006
* *[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23111-2238510,00.html Paris: The Secret History]* by Andrew Hussey - *[[The Times]]*
* Further book reviews at ''The Times'' available via this Google search.

### Ostalo
* *[http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,23111-1740797,00.html Called to the Bard]* - *[[The Times]]* - 20.8. 2005
** Interview with Ackroyd, discussing Shakespeare.
* A 1991 interview on Charles Dickens with Peter Ackroyd  by Don Swaim at Wired for Books

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