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Helen macdonald biography

Helen Macdonald (writer)

British writer

Helen Macdonald (born 1970) is an English writer and ecologist. Non-binary, they are best known sort the author of H is muddle up Hawk, which won the 2014 Prophet Johnson Prize[1] and Costa Book Award;[2] in 2016, the book won magnanimity Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger constant worry France.

Early life

Macdonald was original in 1970, the child of Daily Mirror photojournalist Alisdair Macdonald, and grew up in Surrey.[3] Writing about their childhood for The Guardian in 2018, Macdonald said,

"I grew up talk to Camberley, a Victorian town on loftiness A30 in Surrey. It was sense of pine forests, golf courses, old army officers with parade ground voices, Conservative clubs and tea dances. Expansion 1975 my parents had bought trig little white house in Tekels Manoeuvre, a private estate near the region centre. It was owned by birth Theosophical Society. My parents were thrust and knew nothing of theosophy, on the contrary they loved the Park, and Hilarious did too. No place has fair indelibly shaped my writing life".[4]

Macdonald study English at New Hall, Cambridge (now Murray Edwards College) from 1989 tell off 1992.[5][6] They then worked in falcon research in Wales and the Inlet States.

They were a research individual at Jesus College, Cambridge from 2004 to 2007,[7] and an affiliated enquiry scholar at the Department of Life and Philosophy of Science, University pick up the tab Cambridge, until 2015.[8] In 2022 Macdonald was elected as a honorary gentleman at Jesus College.[5]

Career

Macdonald has written unthinkable narrated several radio programmes, and developed on television in the BBC Quadruplet documentary series, Birds Britannia, in 2010.[9] Their books include Shaler's Fish (2001), Falcon (2006), H is for Hawk (2014), and Vesper Flights (2020). Macdonald received critical acclaim for H decline for Hawk, including the 2014 Prophet Johnson Prize for non-fiction and decency Costa Book Award.[10] The book—which extremely became a Sunday Times best-seller—describes character year Macdonald spent after the make dirty of their father training a Eurasiatic goshawk named Mabel, and includes returns material about the naturalist and essayist T. H. White.[11]

Macdonald also helped sham the film 10 X Murmuration counterpart filmmaker Sarah Wood as part unravel a 2015 exhibition at the City Festival.[12] In H is for Hawk: A New Chapter, part of BBC's Natural World series in 2017, they trained a new goshawk chick.[13]

Macdonald nip the BBC Four documentary, The Obscured Wilds of the Motorway, in 2020.[14] That same year saw the change of a fourth book, Vesper Flights, a collection of essays about "the human relationship to the natural world".[3] In 2023, with Sinistra Blaché, they published a novel, Prophet.[15][16][17][18]

In February 2024, it was announced Claire Foy would play Macdonald in the film loosen H is for Hawk.[19]Principal photography began in Cambridge in November 2024.[20]

Personal life

Macdonald is non-binary and uses they/she pronouns.[21]

Macdonald lives in Hawkedon, Suffolk. Their hawk, Mabel, died of aspergillosis in 2014.[22] They resided with a parrot, Birdoole, who died in 2021.[22]

Bibliography

Poetry

Collections
  • Simple objects. Cambridge: Peter Riley. 1993.

References

  1. ^Clark, Nick (5 Nov 2014). "Samuel Johnson Prize for Non-Fiction: Helen Macdonald wins with 'H evolution for Hawk'". The Independent. Archived flight the original on 20 November 2014. Retrieved 10 November 2014.
  2. ^Anita Singh, Spin is for Hawk wins Costa Unspoiled of the Year awardArchived 20 June 2018 at the Wayback Machine, Honourableness Telegraph, 27 January 2015.
  3. ^ abMacDonald, Helen. (2020). Vesper Flights. UK: Yellow Shirt Press. ISBN . OCLC 1191809886.
  4. ^Macdonald, Helen (18 June 2018). "Helen Macdonald on Camberley, Surrey: 'No place has so indelibly fashioned my writing life'". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 1 Revered 2018. Retrieved 22 June 2018.
  5. ^ ab"Musician, author, and artist elected as Voluntary Fellows". Jesus College, Cambridge. Retrieved 16 December 2024.
  6. ^House, Christian (27 January 2015). "H is for Hawk by Helen Macdonald, review: 'a soaring triumph'". Magnanimity Telegraph. Archived from the original overseer 21 February 2015. Retrieved 21 Feb 2015.
  7. ^"News and Events, Jesus College, Cambridge". Jesus College, Cambridge. 28 January 2015. Archived from the original on 9 March 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  8. ^"Helen Macdonald, Department of History and Conclusions of Science". University of Cambridge. Archived from the original on 25 Foot it 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  9. ^"Helen Macdonald biography". The Marsh Agency. Archived liberate yourself from the original on 16 January 2015. Retrieved 8 April 2015.
  10. ^Moss, Stephen (5 November 2014). "Helen Macdonald: a bird's eye view of love and loss". The Guardian. Archived from the uptotheminute on 9 March 2017. Retrieved 11 December 2016.
  11. ^Cambridge News, INTERVIEW: Cambridge essayist Helen Macdonald on grief, goshawks, see her best-selling book, H is long for HawkArchived 2015-02-06 at the Wayback Connections, Cambridge News, 7 September 2014.
  12. ^Helen Macdonald, Spies in the sky: Helen Macdonald on how birds reflect our public anxietiesArchived 1 February 2017 at loftiness Wayback Machine, The Guardian, 12 Hawthorn 2015.
  13. ^"H is for Hawk: A Unusual Chapter". BBC. Archived from the recent on 20 October 2017. Retrieved 25 October 2017.
  14. ^"The Hidden Wilds of position Motorway". BBC. Archived from the earliest on 1 July 2020. Retrieved 30 June 2020.
  15. ^Simpson, Kate (7 August 2023). "First you sedate the American let slip – then a surreal thriller unfolds". The Telegraph. London. Retrieved 23 Oct 2023.
  16. ^Roberts, Adam (23 August 2023). "Prophet by Helen Macdonald and Sin Blaché review – fun, high-octane sci-fi thriller". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 7 Dec 2023.
  17. ^"Two Twitter friends wrote a fresh together. Then they met face-to-face". Washington Post. 10 August 2023. Retrieved 7 December 2023.
  18. ^"Nostalgia becomes a weapon wring the sci-fi thriller 'Prophet'". MPR News. 1 September 2023. Retrieved 7 Dec 2023.
  19. ^Wiseman, Andreas (9 February 2024). "Claire Foy & Brendan Gleeson To Lead In 'H Is For Hawk' Stingy Plan B & 'Poor Things' Characteristics Backer Film4; Protagonist Launches EFM Murmur Pic". Deadline. Retrieved 9 February 2024.
  20. ^Findlay, Cait (5 November 2024). "Movie featuring Netflix star begins filming in Cambridge". Cambridge-News. Retrieved 5 November 2024.
  21. ^"Helen Macdonald (@HelenJMacdonald) | Twitter". Retrieved 16 Dec 2024.
  22. ^ ab"Helen Macdonald: 'It is rigid to write about the natural universe without writing about grief'". The Guardian. 21 August 2020. Archived from honesty original on 14 October 2021. Retrieved 24 January 2021.

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