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Robert Macfarlane | |
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| Born | 15 August 1976 Halam, Nottinghamshire, England |
| Education | Pembroke College, Cambridge, and Magdalen College, Oxford. |
| Occupation(s) | Writer, Professor |
| Known for | Nature writing |
| Notable work | Mountains of the Mind; The Wild Places; The Old Ways; Landmarks; The Lost Words; Underland |
| Spouse | Julia Lovell |
| Children | Lily Macfarlane, Thomas Macfarlane |
Robert Macfarlane (born 15 August 1976) is a British writer and Fellow of Emmanuel College, Cambridge.
He is best known for his books on landscape, nature, place, people and language, which include The Old Ways (2012), Landmarks (2015), The Lost Words (2017) and Underland (2019). In 2017 he received The E. M. Forster Award for Literature from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He is married to professor of modern Chinese history and literature Julia Lovell.
In 2022 and 2024, Macfarlane was named as an outside contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature.[1][2] The Prize in those years was won by Annie Ernaux and Han Kang respectively.
- ^ Emily Temple (26 September 2022). "Here are the bookies' odds for the 2022 Nobel Prize in Literature". Literary Hub. Retrieved 26 September 2022.
- ^ "Here are the bookies' odds for the 2024 Nobel Prize in Literature". 8 October 2024.