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wrote "This is a tremendous thing that MacLean is creating; a new kind of history, in several dimensions and innumerable moods, that adds up to — across the span of his books — a great and continuing work of literature." He is a Fellow of the
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to enable the relatives of missing persons to recover the remains of their loved ones and so help to restore trust between communities. MacLean and Danziger also collaborated on
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from 51 writers to explore ideas related to freedom, Maclean wrote a bleak essay about daily life in North Korea being a “scripted performance”. He read this on BBC Radio 4’s
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inaugural travel writing competition and changed from screen to prose writing. After completing nine travel books in the UK he wrote
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to hand build—and fly once—a flying machine to come to terms with the death of his mother and to examine the relevance of
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wrote that MacLean "must surely be the outstanding, and most indefatigable, traveller-writer of our time."
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Rory MacLean is one of Britain's most expressive and adventurous creative non-fiction writers
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and founder and curator of the annual Sherborne Travel Writing Festival.
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When the 2018 Edinburgh International Book Festival commissioned
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called it, "the most extraordinary debut in travel writing since
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Colin Thubron, in his Introduction to a new edition of
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Wunderkind: Portraits of 50 Contemporary German Artists
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The Freedom Papers: Rory Maclean and Kapka Kassabova
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In North Korea: Lives and Lies in the State of Truth
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Back in the USSR: Heroic Adventures in Transnistria
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His seventh book 928:Fellows of the Royal Society of Literature 92:and Joan Howe, former secretary to author 88:, the son of Canadian newspaper publisher 323:and the Cyprus conflict, and the use of 313:International Committee of the Red Cross 152:in the capital where he blogged for the 527: 339:on lives lived on the edge, as well as 102:and part-inspiration for the fictional 14: 895: 160:. On the publication of his 15th book 433:Pictures of You: Ten Journeys in Time 298: 27:Canadian historian and travel writer 478: 225:International Dublin Literary Award 24: 25: 939: 863: 757:, Washington Post 31 October 2014 667:Sherborne Travel Writing Festival 303:MacLean worked with photographer 175: 64:, a history of the Asia Overland 850:British Council, September 2018 795: 775: 760: 747: 735: 710: 697: 671: 660: 646: 120:Toronto Metropolitan University 859:Herald Scotland, November 2019 620: 605: 587: 567: 553: 521: 506: 472: 457: 13: 1: 841:Washington Post, October 2014 820: 771:, The Telegraph 22 March 2014 722:literature.britishcouncil.org 258:to modern lives. In his book 744:(Tauris Parke, London, 2011) 694:(Tauris Parke, London, 2008) 681:(HarperCollins, London 1992) 513:John le CarrĂ©, Tim Leffel's 337:Millennium Development Goals 223:. It was nominated for the 79: 36:(born 5 November 1954) is a 7: 829:The Last Literary Traveller 718:"Rory MacLean - Literature" 170:Royal Society of Literature 10: 944: 875:British Council Literature 832:Prospect, London July 2008 192:'s Best First Work prize. 250:(2004), MacLean moved to 142:in Paris. In 1989 he won 537:Constable & Robinson 451: 354: 243:Writers' Award in 1997. 913:Canadian travel writers 379:Next Exit Magic Kingdom 317:Beneath the Carob Trees 241:Arts Council of England 231:, MacLean travelled to 48:who lives and works in 918:British travel writers 870:Rory MacLean's website 769:Berlin: Imagine a City 415:Berlin: Imagine a City 343:pluralism projects in 280:Berlin: Imagine a City 180:MacLean's first book, 150:Berlin: Imagine a City 70:Berlin: Imagine a City 838:Three Books on Berlin 755:Three Books on Berlin 561:"BBC Programme Index" 847:Roads Less Travelled 826:Dalrymple, William. 315:, Geneva, 2010) and 116:Upper Canada College 84:MacLean was born in 491:on 14 December 2014 270:(with photographer 90:Andrew Dyas MacLean 887:As the Wheels Turn 835:De Groot, Gerard. 813:on 2 October 2016. 807:www.cmp-cyprus.org 742:Falling for Icarus 583:. 13 January 2016. 515:Travel Writing 2.0 385:Falling for Icarus 287:The Freedom Papers 278:. His tenth book, 248:Falling for Icarus 114:, graduating from 853:MacDonald, Hugh. 753:Gerard De Groot, 634:on 21 August 2014 546:978-1-84901-857-9 299:Humanitarian work 194:William Dalrymple 16:(Redirected from 935: 815: 814: 809:. Archived from 799: 793: 790:Book of the Week 779: 773: 764: 758: 751: 745: 739: 733: 732: 730: 728: 714: 708: 701: 695: 688: 682: 675: 669: 664: 658: 656:, 4th April 2023 650: 644: 643: 641: 639: 630:. Archived from 624: 618: 609: 603: 602: 591: 585: 584: 571: 565: 564: 557: 551: 550: 525: 519: 510: 504: 503: 498: 496: 487:. Archived from 476: 470: 461: 373:Under the Dragon 292:Book of the Week 237:Under the Dragon 229:Aung San Suu Kyi 211:His second book 154:Meet the Germans 140:Marlene Dietrich 110:. 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Rory Mclean
FRSL
British
Canadian
travel writer
Berlin
Berlin Wall
hippie trail
John le Carré
Vancouver
Andrew Dyas MacLean
Ian Fleming
The Times
James Bond
Miss Moneypenny
Toronto
Upper Canada College
Toronto Metropolitan University
David Hemmings
Ken Russell
England
David Bowie
Marlene Dietrich
The Independent
Goethe-Institut
Jan Morris
Royal Society of Literature
Trabant
Yorkshire Post
William Dalrymple

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